The actress returns to the stage to speak for other women. His way of moving from the singular to the universal.
We find him at the end of rehearsals, a cap pulled back and tinted glasses hiding his beautiful blue eyes. Strong and fragile, like the women Anne Pario plays I wouldn’t have gotten there if…, a theatrical adaptation of Annik Kozhan’s book, featuring around thirty interviews with inspiring women. Eight were selected for this Anne Bouvier-directed show, in which the actress shares the stage with comedian Laura Lawn.
Madame Figaro. – Some women touch you more than others. ?
Anne Pariseau. – I caught Virginie Despentes for the radicalism and freedom of this writer. He has seen it all, felt it all, or almost. After such exploration, his subterranean knowledge of the soul is rich and legitimized. And I found myself, among others, because they all touched me, actress, producer, UN Women Ambassador in Nicole Kidman. In her speech and in her vision as an actress, the need to exist in a parallel artistic world, her passion for psychology and her feminism lifestyle, as well as her origins.
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These words are very strong, the supposed feminism…
Alleged feminism, but without aggression. He is smart, fluid, deep, fair. And their sincere, touching, brave, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel words. Playing these women is an ideal environment that will allow me to establish a feminist position. I have a hard time fitting into reality, I need an interface to express myself through roles or recently writing The abused. There is a depth, a thickness to these texts that resonates with the women’s experiences, their childhoods, but also resonates powerfully within me. There is no destruction of man. The idea is to transform relationships to achieve equality in all aspects between men and women.
There is the metaphor of a teacup. Tell me about it? ?Emma Thompson compares consent to a cup of tea. If you offer someone tea and they say “I’d like that,” then you put the kettle on. When you come back with the mug, the person no longer wants it or has fallen asleep. You are not going to force or wake him up to drink it. He is free to change his mind.
It’s my turn to ask the question “I wouldn’t have gotten there if…”
I wrote a short text because we were asked to answer this question on stage. Here. “I wouldn’t have gotten there if I hadn’t decided to crawl, limp, upstream, whatever. Leaving behind a destructive family and a chaotic childhood, he threw himself passionately into cinema, theater and literature. To free myself from what was choking the life out of me and find my happiness in the recesses of my gaps, my flaws, my unsaid things, and my melancholy. It gave me a frenzy to be and do.”
I wouldn’t have gotten there if I hadn’t decided to crawl, limp, against the current.
Anne Pariseau
You haven’t been on stage since success Winner: your state of mind ?
It’s a love-hate relationship with theater. Physically, organically, I miss him. the desire to be on stage, to communicate with the audience is great, even addictive. But I’m terrified.
I wouldn’t have gotten there if… By Annick Cojean, to 1eh in June at the Antoine Theater in Paris. theatre-antoine.com
Source: Le Figaro
