"He's going to take some time to breathe." After his bout of fatigue last Wednesday and the cancellation of the performances of the play "Lapin" since then, Pierre Arditi will not return to the stage of the Théâtre Edouard-VII in Paris for three weeks. But it's official: the 78-year-old actor should be back on stage with Muriel Robin "on November 8", his entourage told us this Sunday. "He's done his medical check-ups, he's at home and he's resting to be fit at the theater on Nov. 8."
Until then, spectators who had purchased tickets for the cancelled performances will be able to get their refund or postponement at the points of sale or the theater, according to the theater's press office.
Bulimic of work
This time, there is no question that the 78-year-old actor, who played "Rabbit" on October 4, just one week after his vagal discomfort on September 27, will not give himself a real break. "He started working too early, he needs to rest, but he's a workaholic and he didn't really do it after his illness," his relatives told us last Thursday. "Pierre will stop for as long as it takes," added the play's director, Samuel Benchetrit.
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The artist had not been able to be present, as he wished, on Friday evening at the opening of the exhibition dedicated to his father Georges Arditi (1914-2012), a very talented but little-known painter, at the Musée La Piscine in Roubaix (Nord).
In addition to his theatrical return, he is expected in the TV movie "Clemenceau, la force d'aimer" scheduled soon on France 2. Adapted from Nathalie Saint-Cricq's story "I will help you to live, you will help me to die" (Éditions de l'Observatoire), this fiction will tell the story of the unexpected love at first sight between Georges Clemenceau, 82 years old, and Marguerite, a publisher forty years his junior and a bereaved mother.
Their relationship - including 700 letters exchanged - lasted for four years until the death of the former President of the Council four years later in 1929. Pierre Arditi plays "The Tiger" alongside Émilie Caen and Élizabeth Bourgine.