No, the culture is not stopped during this complicated period of post-containment. This is the message from Emmanuel Ray, who runs the Pocket Theater in Chartres. Confronted with the closure of his broadcasting site, he imagined a different way of going out to meet the public.
The urgency is to say that there are possible things to do with the live performance.
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Now that the deconfinement has started, do you imagine the future of your company?
Yes, we are going to tour the villages of Eure-et-Loir and offer readings from the first act of the play Fratelli. There will be fifty chairs distributed 2 meters apart in the main square. And we, Antoine Marneur and I, will be on a desk in front of our truck. I call it “our pizza truck”. We can get settled in an hour. We adapt to health measures. You have to live with it and not be sclerosed by the situation. The urgency is to say that there are possible things to do with the live performance. The first date should take place at the Château de Vauventriers, in Champhol. We will have the complete list of dates at the beginning of June.
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Will the show be paid?
We will pass the hat at the end of the performance, asking people to be generous during this complicated period.
Is Fratelli a project you’ve been thinking about for a long time?
It’s a text I’ve been thinking about for three years. It is very current. He talks about two aging Italian stars who are confined to their hotel rooms. These are two relics locked in their box.
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When will the Pocket Theater open?
I hope to be able to welcome spectators from September 18. Obviously, we do not yet know what the health situation will be at that time.
Rémi Bonnet
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