The nightclubs are closed (and for a long time if we are to believe Jean Castex)?
Whatever, Frédéric Beigbeder wants to transform the Bataclan into a night club for a very private evening where he invites the gratin of literature.
To celebrate his 30-year career, the pecker of belles lettres and damned of dark nights intends to put on a show at the Bataclan, in March, in a program in his image: improbable.
The 55-year-old night owl intends to confide in the man he has been since 1990 and the one he no longer has the right to be.
To tell his story, the literary critic, who signs for
Le Figaro,
has selected excerpts from his novels and his columns on radio and television, accompanied by his favorite pieces of music.
Because Frédéric Beigbeder is also a DJ in his spare time.
“A joking anthology and a melancholy life assessment, a look back at the world before (where we lived) compared to the world after (where we are content not to die), a look back at my youth lost, and on an incomprehensible present
”, summarizes the author of
99 Francs.
Theater transformed into a nightclub
To find the ideal and festive format, Frédéric Beigbeder called on the director Jérémie Lippmann.
Seated at the Café de Flore this summer, they thought about a show that could mix literature, nightlife and cinema.
They therefore created a “Literary DJ Set”, a sort of theatrical concert against a background of literature.
Jérémie Lippmann, who directed JoeyStarr in
Eloquence to the Assembly
with speeches by Robespierre and Simone Veil, resuscitates the crying truth and topical texts of great deceased authors such as Albert Camus, Céline, Françoise Sagan, Marguerite Duras , Sacha Guitry, Alfred Jarry ... A lot of work has been done in the archives to find the texts read by the authors themselves.
Then resolutely modernized with the setting to music of DJ Pone.
"Big beat",
laughs in advance Jérémie Lippmann.
“At the end of the show, a very, very festive X project will look like a giant nightclub,”
says the director.
In this last part, living writers this time around are called together like Amélie Nothomb and Michel Houellebecq.
The new format, with around twenty songs, could then exist in concert halls and festivals.
March 11 and 12 at the Bataclan, from 30 to 52 euros.
