“La Criée is the culmination of my link with the Mediterranean and several decades of reflection on the meaning of decentralization”,
confides to AFP Robin Renucci, the new director of 65 years, who takes office this Friday July, 1st.
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The one who created a cultural center in Corsica and until now headed Les Tréteaux de France, another national drama center but itinerant, would like to continue this relocated relationship with the spectators in Marseille.
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"Bringing large audiences to places is a great story of theater but basically going to meet audiences where they are is undoubtedly an era in which we have entered definitively"
, analyzes- he.
It is necessary to combine even more
“this coming to and this meeting with people where they are, in contexts of theater close to them”
, continues the actor and director.
Because the reconquest and the renewal of the public, scalded by two years of pandemic, is a long-term work.
“We have found our audience, around 80% attendance, we still have between 35 and 40% young people, all of this is the daily work, of ants, of relations with the public”
, explains Macha to AFP. Makeïeff, 69 years old.
"Mixing of the Arts"
A work which is
"also made of relay with associations, teachers, great social partners"
, she adds.
“I also deeply believe that the fact that we are multidisciplinary”
played a role.
Circus, dance, music, theatre, visual arts: the various programs of Macha Makeïeff, visual artist, actress and director, have systematically had transversality as their watchword.
"What mattered to me was the mixture of the arts"
because
"this separation of theater from the other arts is for me a primary anomaly"
, says the one who has always asserted her fantasy.
A creativity, combined with the buoyant wind of Marseille European Capital of Culture in 2013, which allowed this
“a bit winded liner”
that was La Criée in 2011 to undergo a profound transformation, despite limited resources.
“I have a house which is, for the second city of France, underfunded but I have never made it an obstacle”
, notes the director, who nevertheless obtained subsidies from the region and the department, in addition to those of the state and the city.
"Intergenerational relationship" -
"It is obviously a question of continuing this work by trying to center it on the question of the dramatic art"
, advances Robin Renucci, who conceives multidisciplinarity more as a stakeholder in theatrical creation.
And wishes to make theatrical practice, amateur as professional, one of its milestones:
"There is of course coming to see works in a place but there is also a large part of artistic and cultural education since the childhood of the spectators and popular education throughout life.
“Practicing is very important and then also thinking, through moments of meeting around shows”
, details the one who would like to create bridges with the school world and that of caregivers.
Like Macha Makeïeff, Robin Renucci claims to be at a point in an
"already very accomplished"
career where he especially wants
to "transmit"
by maintaining a real
"intergenerational relationship"
, especially with young female artists.
Whether it is Julie Berès, Alice Zeniter or Louise Vignaud with whom he will surround himself during the next seasons, "it is absolutely necessary that the authors, the directors can approach shows on large sets" at La Criée, insists-t- he.
“The lives of women are made up of successive emancipations”
, abounds Macha Makeïeff, who will take over the management of her company, “Mademoiselle”, in Aix-en-Provence.
“From there, I will watch Marseille with always a lot of affection
, she promises.
This city has escaped so many patterns, standards, that you can really invent it, shift things without it producing a revolution
.
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