After
Les Serge (Gainsbourg point barre)
, the Comédie-Française offers
La Ballade de Souchon
at the Studio-Théâtre.
Six actresses paint the portrait of a man full of poetry, whose 50-year career is being celebrated.
Meeting with actress and director Françoise Gillard.
LE FIGARO.
- A show on Alain Souchon, who is celebrating his 50th career, that seemed almost self-evident, didn't it?
Francoise GILLARD.
-
I said to myself that, finally, we have this chance to interpret as actresses the giants of French song and I found it a pity that we never did the portrait - I prefer that to a tribute -, of someone who always sings.
Very quickly the desire to work on Alain Souchon came to me.
When I proposed this ballad by Souchon to Éric Ruf
(general administrator of the Comédie-Française, editor's note)
, he told me that it was an excellent idea.
For me, Souchon was a great poet of French song who speaks to us all.
There is like a natural identification and sympathy for this man
Françoise Gillard, actress and director
Casually, Souchon crossed our life…
It is part of the landscape and accompanies our lives like that, the air of nothing...
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