Without waiting for the meeting that will be organized tomorrow at the Ministry of Culture tomorrow by Sylviane Tarsot-Gillery, director general of artistic creation, most theater directors showed their depression last night.
For Jean-Marc Dumontet, the curfew measure is unfair for theaters.
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"I announced it to 300 spectators who came to see the comedian Florent Peyre whom I have just brought on stage
"
,
protested Loïc Bonnet, director of a theater in Rouen and president of the association of Private Theaters in the Regions.
We have respected the health protocol from the start, we have always followed to the letter what the government asked for, I do not understand what it wants.
Theater directors are going to go wild.
What are we going to do, we are only helped until the end of May.
Macron is killing theaters.
"
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Normally, a play starts at 8:30 p.m. or 9 p.m.
One of the solutions will be to bring the show schedule forward.
Loïc Bonnet expects 7 pm.
At the Hébertot theater where certain performances begin at 7 pm, Francis Lombrail, the director wonders:
“It's a tragedy, we will try to program them at 6.30 pm, but it will discourage the public.
Already with the covid gauge which can accommodate 340 people instead of 626!
What kills us are the very high and even prohibitive rents.
At the Hébertot Theater, the rent is 200,000 euros per month.
We are obliged to offer places at low prices.
If the state does not help us and provide a law on rents we cannot stand.
"
“There is not a single cluster in theaters, we have struggled to respect health protocols, we are not rewarded (...).
To govern is to plan!
There, we are heading for disaster.
""
Bertrand Thamin, president of the National Syndicate of Private Theaters
Same bitter observation from Bertrand Thamin, president of the National Syndicate of Private Theaters: “
There is not a single cluster in the theaters, we have struggled to respect health protocols, we are not rewarded.
We were asked to reopen, we incurred production and advertising expenses and less than a month later, they are closing the theaters again.
To govern is to plan!
There, we are heading for disaster. "
From the end of the presidential address, these professionals were nevertheless putting themselves in order of battle.
“
The Philharmonie de Paris will maintain its activities for the next six weeks,
announces its director Laurent Bayle to
Le Figaro.
We are going to study the possibility of bringing all the concerts that we can forward to 7 p.m. instead of 8:30 p.m., with the ambition that the spectators are out at 8:20 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. at the latest, or to move them to the weekend when that will be possible.
We are aware that it will not be comfortable for the public, but the hypothesis of having the public come at 6.30 pm does not seem realistic to me
, ”he said.
Same measures in the auditorium of Radio France, which will rework its programming from tomorrow to bring the concerts forward to 7 p.m. and ensure that the public is out at 8.15 p.m.
However, there is the question
of Wagner's
Ring
, the river cycle of opera which was to be given in concert at the Paris Opera from November 23 to 29, and repeated on Radio France on November 30.
"
We are going to study tomorrow the possibilities to maintain this cycle, which was to be a strong symbol of the resumption of lyric in the capital
", explains Michel Orier, director of music at Radio France.
"We have to go back to coal to talk about 2021 because there will be no resumption of shows before the first quarter of 2021 and probably even summer 2021 ..."
Olivier Darbois, concert producer at Corida and president of the Prodiss union
At a standstill since March, those in charge of large theaters have also reacted to these announcements which now even affect theaters with less than 1,000 seats.
“
For all the other medium, large, giant venues and the shows that go with them, this will not change anything since we have been at a total standstill since March
,” recalls Olivier Darbois, concert producer at Corida and president of the Prodiss union.
Unlike restaurants which have closed on an ad hoc basis and which will be able to work until 9 p.m., we have been completely shut down for eight months now.
The recovery plan that allowed us to obtain 220 million euros this summer gave us a little hope, but here we are again in the unknown.
We have to go back to coal to talk about 2021 because there will be no resumption of shows before the first quarter of 2021 and probably even summer 2021 ”.
For cinemas too, the consequences of a curfew in the cities concerned are disastrous.
The cinemas lose their two evening screenings.
A signal from the government
"very bad"
according to them.
Jocelyn Bouyssy, director of the CGR circuit, the second largest group of cinemas in France, says he is “stunned”.
“If the curfew had been put at 10 pm, our cinemas, theaters and multiplex performance halls could continue to receive audiences.
We advanced the long films to 7 pm and voila.
At 9:30 pm, everyone had returned since in France, the spectators live at most 20 minutes
”, he estimates.
Before adding:
"I am all the more angry that there has been no source of contamination in a cinema anywhere in the world.
Even the president acknowledged it: '' cinemas are a very safe place ''. "
“Within an hour, cinemas and films were saved.
The government's decision is incomprehensible.
It's a real scandal ”
Jean Labadie, producer, boss of the Pacte
The producer Jean Labadie, boss of the Pacte, does not take offense either.
“The government's decision is incomprehensible.
He thus shoots the two evening sessions.
I'm worried that cinemas in big cities can survive by working only in the afternoon.
For family movies like
Trolls 2
and
Calamity Jane
it will be fine.
But for the films that the adult public will see in the evening like
Drunk
by Tomas Vinterberg with Mads Mikkelsen and the films that we will see with friends to laugh together like
30 days Max
by Tarek Boudali, it's a disaster.
Who is going to want to rush to the movies when they get out of work earlier?
», He pleaded.
And to fear that all the programmed exits will be jostled again.
"What will decide the producers and distributors of large French films expected this winter autumn
Aline
Valérie Lemercier,
of
Kaamelott
Alexandre Astier
, Farewell the idiots
Albert Dupontel of
mandibles
of Dupieux?
What will happen to
Maïwenn's
DNA
scheduled for October 28?
The world of cinema will be spending its time tomorrow in crisis meetings.
Should we move releases to the first quarter of 2021?
The virus may still be there.
Within an hour, the cinemas and the films were saved.
The government's decision is incomprehensible.
It's a real scandal. ”