PORTRAIT – The very popular director opens the Festival d’Avignon with The Black Monk by Chekhov. Portrait of a tormented autodidact.
Avignon, Wednesday June 29, 2 p.m. It is in a small air-conditioned reception room on the first floor of the Hôtel de l’Horloge that Kirill Serebrennikov enters on the tip of his sneakers, apologizing for being three minutes late.
He is a courteous man. In Bermuda shorts, T-shirt, pale pink cap, two small pirate rings in his left ear, Elton John 1976-style glasses, the director, accompanied by his assistant and his translator, does not seem in his plate. Didn’t he just learn, a few moments ago, of the closure, in Moscow, of the mythical Gogol Center which he had transformed into a major space for contemporary creation? “You had to see the vitality of this place, the large public that came there, the openness to the contemporary, the West…”recalls his ” brother “ David Bobée, director of the Théâtre du Nord in Lille.
To be abnormal is to have doubts about the laws of existence. It’s the insolent guy who arrives and says: “No, that’s not it, it happens differently”
Kirill Serebrennikov
Kirill Serebrennikov, this Russian director and director that all the French intelligentsia is tearing up, was born in…
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