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Open in the appSunday 15 November 2026, 5pm Orangerie du Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire Madame Shakespeare or the Woman of Stratford based on the work by Anca Visdei Annick Gambotti, Anne - Eric Dalhen, Will Anna Ozdemir, violoncello - Daniel de Morais, lute « Dear reader, These letters… Sunday 15 November 2026, 5pm Orangerie du Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire Madame Shakespeare or the Woman of Stratford based on the work by Anca Visdei Annick Gambotti, Anne - Eric Dalhen, Will Anna Ozdemir, violoncello - Daniel de Morais, lute « Dear reader, These letters were found in an attic in the surroundings of London. I love attics, I love London. I still can't believe it… […] The dates? It started with « fifteen hundred… ». […] The next day, I found myself at the office of an expert in handwriting of great renown. He looked at me over his half-moon glasses and said: - Excellent forgery! Perfect imitation of William Shakespeare's handwriting!... period ink, period paper. How did you do it? Just the thing is, I did nothing. » … Anca Visdei So it is that Anca Visdei, French-language writer and dramatist, introduces her collection of correspondence between the famous English playwright and dramatist, William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway. A Shakespeare, Will, tormented by the pangs of creation, deeply in love with his wife, and that wife Anne, mother of their three children and demanding muse. The distance between the two, one in London « that miserable city of London, infested with rats and brigands, covered in mud and vomit, haunted by plague and women of ill repute » and the other in Stratford-Upon-Avon, among the three children, where reigns « the green of grass, the beauty of the sky, the clarity of the Avon… » Him, « useless, dried fruit, lazy impostor » by his own words, she « muse and executioner », as she describes herself: they lead us into a quarrel where the relationships of the couple are drawn and, intertwined, those of the tortured author and the muse. Some years later, William and Anne reread their exchanges and bring back from their past, their shared joys, often at a distance, their torments…