INTERVIEW – The actor of the French comedy, who also directs the Normandy company of the Petits Champs, stages “A month in the countryside” at the Athénée. He emphasizes its astonishing modernity. Encounter.
Clément Hervieu-Léger is the must-have this season. This refined forty-year-old with an insolent youth is also at ease at the Athénée, where he staged Tourgueniev and his own play. Republic Square (given on February 25, 26 and 27) and at Le Français, where, as a member, he is currently playing Robespierre in The Death of Danton de Büchner.
LE FIGARO. –You staged the most famous of Ivan Tourgueniev’s plays with your Compagnie des petits champs, based in Normandy. A dream place to rehearse Turgenev…
Clement HERVIEU-LEGER. – We wanted, a little over ten years ago, with Daniel San Pedro to lead this old-fashioned troop adventure. A company creates a complicity of play. We are installed in Normandy, in the property of my family, where we have rehabilitated agricultural buildings to make a rehearsal room and possibilities of accommodation. We repeated A month in the countryside in the countryside.
You staged blow after blow
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