2023-05-13 07:42:43
From 1is June, Michel Vuillermoz will play Stalin in Master classthe play by British David Pownall. JOEL SAGET/AFP
INTERVIEW – After twenty years of service, he left the Comédie-Française “nose to the wind”. Confidences of an angry man, who settles his accounts with the political class, Éric Ruf, his ex-boss, Alexis Michalik and the Molières.
In Michel Vuillermoz’s dressing room, the unhooked paintings left yellowish marks on the walls. A poster of The comic illusion, by Corneille the only play staged by his “guide” Louis Jouvet at the Comédie-Française still sits above a small table. A caricature of the actor signed Éric Ruf, the general administrator of the house of Molière is displayed next to it. A floor mat, a game of chess and a scented candle on the fireplace testify to the presence of the member of the French who is leaving the Comédie-Française these days after twenty years of service.
From 1is June, he will play Stalin in Master class, the play by British David Pownall, which he also staged at the Edouard VII Theater with Stephan WojtowiczSam Karmann et al Dmitri Shostakovich. Confidences of an angry man who wants to move on.
LE FIGARO – Are you sad at the idea of leaving the French twenty years after entering as a boarder?
Michel VUILLERMOZ – No, it’s a decision…
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