LE FIGARO.- You are one of the last to take hold of these authors who are no longer being played. Are you going in the middle for a horrible retrograde?
Michel FAU. -A little. But it's still okay. I say I am nostalgic, so they tolerate me!
What do you think they are accused of?
To be much freer than we allow ourselves today. Anouilh, for example, wrote La Culotte , a play on women's empowerment, premiered in 1978 at l'Atelier, with Jean-Pierre Marielle in the lead role. Okay, you put it up now, you get lynched.
It goes back to the 1980s. When it became suspect of being cultivatedWhen did they get banished?
When I arrived in Paris thirty years ago, there were many different styles of theater. Vitez, Régy, Deschamps, Arias… All of them offered very different aesthetics. Now the shows tend to look alike. It dates from the 1980s. When it became suspected of being cultivated.
Who is on the move?
The intellectuals. The demo nerds who disparage Mozart or judge Racine inaudible. The
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