It’s not every day that we get a former Bond Girl on a New York stage — a Bond Girl who isn’t Diana Rigg, that is. That alone would make Carole Bouquet’s solo performance of “Lettres à Génica” on February 24 notable, but Bouquet actually has considerable acting chops. Before tempting Mr. Bond, James Bond, in “For Your Eyes Only,” she had made her film debut with Luis Bunuel in 1977’s “That Obscure Object of Desire,” and she’s only gotten better since. Next week, Bouquet will be at Florence Gould Hall to read (in French, with surtitles) from the letters Theater of Cruelty inventor Antonin Artaud wrote his paramour Génica Athanasiou in the 1920s. My colleague Adam Feldman has more non-Bond info on the show here. 

Then on March 3, Francis Huster takes to the Florence Gould Hall stage with another solo, this time based on Albert Camus’s 1947 novel “The Plague.” Huster is completely unknown here but famous in his native France. He may not want to remember that part of his filmography, but for many his star turn in the Jacques Demy/Michel Legrand musical “Parking” (1985) is the stuff cults are made of. The movie was a retelling of the Orpheus story with Orpheus as a rock musician and an underground garage standing in for Hell. Take a look at this compilation of Huster’s best moments: