Each of these five women is advocating for equality in the theater world through the leadership of the National Drama Center. For us, in the spotlight, they pose and speak.
Their names are Julie, Mael, Pauline, they are in their thirties or nearing their forties, they attended conservatory or theater school. Actresses, they created their collective and moved on to directing, facing reality, questioning the world, breathing more poetry into it. This new generation of author-directors took over the management of theaters, national drama centers (CDN) after being imposed on the councils.
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Together, 18 CDN directors wrote the first forum in December 2021, highlighting inequalities between men and women. A strong gesture. they were joined by CDN directors in Avignon this summer to sign a charter for equality of programming and production resources. Solidarity binds these women. Key words stick to their conversation: space, decentralization, public service… Even if today they lead 46% of the CDNs, the national theaters are still managed by men… Jean Villard said: society, after which maybe we will make a good theater. It’s up to them!
Chloé Dabert, Comédie-CDN de Reims
THREE TIMES. 2014, Impatience Festival Award for his productionorphans, by Dennis Kelly; 2018, staged at the Comédie-Française I was in my house waiting for the rain by Jean-Luc Lagars; In 2019, he was appointed head of the Comédie-CDN de Reims.
LEADING… “Give purpose, meaning, guide the team and artists to meet an audience other than yourself.”
INFLUENCE OF WEATHER. CDN’s 38 directors have signed an equality charter. It is a written commitment.
THEATRICAL SHOCK. “Milo Rau, who I discovered with La Reprise, Theater History(s) (I), in Avignon in 2018. It’s documentary theater, very political, compelling every time.
Mantra: “Leave the fast lanes and follow the uncertain ones,” Jean-Luc Lagars From luxury and impotence.»
ICON: “Joel Juano, author, director. My conservatory teacher. A great teacher.”
THE NEXT STEP. “Women’s Legitimacy to Access the Great Plateaus. Let there be no more questions.”
NEWS.girls and boys By Denis Kelly, November 23rd and 24th at CDN-Orléans and December 6th to 23rd at Theater 14 in Paris.
Julie Delique, Théâtre Gérard-Philippe, CDN of Saint-Denis
THREE TIMES. 2009, the creation of his In Vitro collective; 2016, first experience at the Comédie-Française Vania, After Chekhov. 2020, director of the Gérard-Philippe theater in Saint-Denis.
LEADING… “Pursuing your artistic vision in public service, thinking of a collective project for the artists of today and tomorrow, the audience, the residents of the area.”
INFLUENCE OF WEATHER. “We tell ourselves that recognition is enough. But recognition does not prevent violence. Today’s fight does not win tomorrow.
THEATRICAL SHOCK. “love A play by Alexander Zeldin that was seen as part of the recent Fall Festival. His work in the social sphere transposed on stage makes me question the theater of tomorrow.
MANTRA: “It’s easy for anyone to talk too much,” and “We always have more power than we think.” Two sentences taken from my last exhibition, Proletarian Mural, Eight hours don’t make a day By Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
ICON: Delphine Seyrig. We renamed the big hall of the Gerard-Philippe theater after him. It is the first time that he has a woman’s name.
THE NEXT STEP. “Women’s access to higher fields if they want it”.
NEWS.Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, Armand and others… According to Moliere, until January 15 at La Comédie-Française in Paris.
Maëlle Poésy, Theater Dijon-Bourgogne, CDN
THREE TIMES. 2007, admission to TNS drama school; 2016, adaptation and staging of two Chekhov plays for the studio-Théâtre de la Comédie Française; In 2021, he takes over the duties of the director of the Dijon-Bourgon Theater.
LEADING… “Team work. Also the responsibility of the public service part. It is with an artistic project that we protect the territory.
INFLUENCE OF WEATHER. “It revealed a place of violence in society that was ‘invisible’. The absolute need for this thing to be regulated, thought about, changed.”
THEATRICAL SHOCK :”Memorize, By Thiago Rodríguez, seen in Quebec in 2015. Poetry as a force of resistance. Wonderful!”
MANTRA: “Considering the context, I will quote Seneca’s sentence: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Icons. “Judith Butler, Pina Bausch, Ohad Naharin, Marguerite Duras, Virginia Despentes, Robert Filiu, among others…”
THE NEXT STEP. “Equality in the management of national theaters, as well as the same means of production and distribution.”
NEWS.7 minutes By Stefano Massini, November 17th to 19th at Théâtre-Sénart, National Stage, and December 9th and 10th, Points Communs, Cergy National Stage. as well as Anima, March 29 to 1, or a proposal by Maëlle Poésy and visual artist Noémie Goodall, performance artist Chloé Moglia and musical work by Chloë Thevenin.eh April 2023 at the Center Pompidou in Paris.
Pauline Bayle, CDN – Monterey Public Theatre
THREE TIMES. 2010, admission to the Conservatory; 2019, adaptation and production soft song Leila Slimani’s novel, at the Comédie-Française studio-theatre; In January 2022, takes over the management of the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil.
LEADING… “An impulse towards others, an impulse to create, an impulse towards society.”
INFLUENCE OF WEATHER. “The responsibility to be permeable to this change in society, to be ahead of this change.”
THEATRICAL SHOCK. “Rain, choreographed by Anne Theresa De Kiersmaeker. He succeeded in this work to give the body the vital energy in its chaos and the greatest harmony.
MANTRA: “Be, if possible, and each at your own pace, with your own strength, the unrecognizable gesticulator, be the unheard voice, the unheard body in these times of false wisdom and fanciful likeness,” Didier-Georges sentence. Gabilly is removed Working notes.»
ICON: “Virginia Woolf. My next show write his life In June 2023, it’s on it.”
THE NEXT STEP. “Equality is no longer a topic. This is the basis, the starting point. Women need to make their voices heard.”
NEWS.Iliad + Odyssey, according to Homer, on tour, Dec. 3 at Châteauroux; lost illusions According to Balzac, from November 16 to 26 at the Celestins in Lyon.
Julia Vidit, Manufacture Theatre, CDN Nancy-Lorraine
THREE TIMES. 2003, leaving CNSAD (National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts); the first performance My corpse will be trapped by Pierre Desproges; 2021 was appointed director of the Theater de la Manufacture in Nancy-Lorraine.
LEADING… “Take a theatrical adventure with the team, the audience, in the area. It’s too tough!’
INFLUENCE OF WEATHER. “Recognizing the need to be in a healthy relationship. Something is on the way… But there’s still work to be done.”
THEATRICAL SHOCK. “In the solitude of the cotton fields, by Coltes, performed and directed by Patrice Charon at the Manufacture des Œillets. I cried during the four hour bus ride from Paris to Metz.
MANTRA: “Depending on the day, I vacillate between ‘I’m mad at being silent and hearing lies’ by Cornell, and ‘To be happy is always to be happy no matter what’ by Clément Rossetti.”
Icons. “Jeanne Laurent, Decentralization Actress, Dominique Valadier, Actress, Edward Bond, Author”.
THE NEXT STEP. “Woman will truly be equal to man on the day when an incompetent woman is appointed to an important position.” Francoise Giroux, March 11, 1983.”
news: What is the climate? co-creation at CDN in Nancy, May 13 and 14, 2023. It’s like this (if you want): After Pirandello, by Guillaume Cayet, with tours.
Source: Le Figaro
