On July 1, Robin Renucci, 65, will take over as director of La Criée Théâtre national de Marseille, succeeding Macha Makeïeff.
The Ministry of Culture and the city, which will have taken several weeks to decide, appreciated the project of the director of the Troupe des Tréteaux which places a large audience "
first in cross-practices: aesthetic, artistic and critical
" and promotes a “
theatre of language and breath, of which the actor is the centre.
Eager to open up to the world, Robin Renucci intends to associate the place with various partners: an author and an author, Alice Zeniter and François Cervantès, the Collective 49701 of Clara Hédoin and Jade Herbulot and the New popular theater (NTP) of Léo Cohen Paperman, a stage director and director, Louise Vigneau and Simon Abkarian, as well as five intellectual personalities: Barbara Cassin, Cynthia Fleury, Marie-Christine Bordeaux, Grégoire Ingold and Roland Gori.
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Born in Marseille, Macha Makeïeff was appointed head of the theater in July 2011, replacing Jean-Louis Benoit.
Author and director, also visual artist, decorator and costume designer, she had set herself the task of making La Criée “
the great theater of the second city of France
”.
Former student of the Atelier-école Charles Dullin, passed by the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, Robin Renucci played under the direction, among others, of Marcel Bluwal, Roger Planchon, Patrice Chéreau... Director of the National Dramatic Center Les Tréteaux de France since 2011, he notably staged
Mademoiselle Julie
by August Strindberg,
La Guerre des salamandres
by Karel Čapek in 2018 and plays by Racine:
Bérénice
(2019),
Britannicus
(2020),
Andromaque
(2021) and
Phèdre
recently.
