Stéphanie Boutros invited her cousin Ludovic Salmon to share a play with her. – Studio Maignan
- Stéphanie Boutros is an amateur actress who invites novices to share the stage with her.
- Hospitalized many times during her youth, the young woman discovered the theater thanks to the videos her mother showed her.
- With around thirty performances, Stéphanie will have raised 80,000 euros in favor of the fight against cancer. She has just been distinguished for her commitment and will perform her final show in April.
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His journey is unlike any other. Born without a bladder a little over thirty years ago, Stéphanie Boutros spent a large part of her youth in hospital. Operated about fifty times, the young Breton was able to take advantage of her long stays to discover a passion for the theater. “My mom was showing me plays on TV. It really helped me to feel good, to pass the course. The theater made me laugh, it cheered me up, ”says the young woman who lives in Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine).
By dint of watching the comedies for hours, she ended up knowing the dialogues by heart, to the point of daring to get on the stage to declaim them. It took him well. For a dozen years, she has invited novices to take the stage with her to share her taste for laughter. Her sister and her mother went there, her former French teacher too. And even the former member Isabelle Le Callennec.
“It is a surpassing of oneself”
Since her enrollment in the theater troupe of her high school nearly fifteen years ago, the young woman has taken on the challenge of putting on the pieces alone and involving her guinea pigs. “It’s a challenge, a real challenge. Often people are very stressed but once the curtain opens, they go beyond themselves ”. The proof with Sandrine Foricher, her French teacher, who was the first to introduce her to the theater.
Each time, it took a year of weekly rehearsals to put on the boulevard theaters like The big plane, Happy new year yourself, My sister is a good guy or Final, which she should have played in May, the evening of her 30th birthday. “We had to postpone it because of the Covid. I had to stop there, I was disappointed. Finally,
we should play it in april. It will be the last ”, explains the young woman.
Her commitment to make people laugh, Stéphanie combined it with a noble cause, since all funds are donated to the fight against cancer. A choice that earned him a gold medal awarded by the League against cancer a few weeks ago. “The mother of my first partner on stage was sick with cancer. It opened my eyes to this cause. With all her shows, Stéphanie Boutros will have collected 80,000 euros, which will have made it possible to finance the development work at the Southern Hospital of Rennes. And to help sick children to “live better” their hospitalization. As a way for Stéphanie to give back to the nursing staff everything he gave her in her youth. To live, quite simply.
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