Fabrice Drouelle will be on stage at La Maline on December 8 with a stage adaptation of his show “Affairs Sensitives”, broadcast on France Inter for almost ten years. Interview.
The journalist, producer and presenter of the show, addresses, in an engaged and unique tone, news items, state scandals, adventures and trials which have marked the last 50 years of the history of France. For this show, entitled “Sensitive matters » Women’s fight, he drew on his stock of stories to highlight, in the theater, the fight of three women.
Ré à la Hune: Who are these three women? Why did you choose them?
Fabrice Drouelle: They are three fighters, three women who live in different eras, and who fight different battles. Pauline Dubuisson, first of all, is a woman at the heart of a news item which caught my attention, because, for having killed her fiancé, she was sentenced to life imprisonment, whereas she should have received eight to ten years in prison. It’s shocking: it’s actually about condemning a woman not because she killed her fiancé but because she had a relationship with a German officer during the war. The second woman’s story that we tell in this show is that of Edith Cresson, who, upon coming to power in Matignon, triggers the anger of men who cannot stand that a woman can be head of government.
Finally, the third painting in this room is the story of Marie Humbert, whose son, after an accident, finds himself quadriplegic, blind and mute. He wants to end it, but euthanasia is illegal. He therefore asks his mother for help, who kills him. It’s a gesture of love, and it’s both a woman’s and a mother’s fight.
Why did you choose this theme, women’s struggles?
Quite simply because I consider that in our contemporary Western societies, which are still in a reactionary pendulum, the feminist fight is a real progressive fight. There are few enough that we won’t miss it.
This show is presented as an adaptation of “Sensitive Affairs”. Will we find the same type of narration there?
Yes, because I am the narrator like in the show, but here I am not alone! On stage I have a partner, the actress Clémence Thioly, who is absolutely incredible. In fact, she makes the archives, that is to say that she embodies these three women, she plays their characters. And then I also have different roles: I am a prosecutor, then I become a husband, a lover, etc. So there is both narration and acted scenes.
What is the difference between a radio studio and the theater stage? Was the transition from one to the other smooth?
No, it wasn’t very smooth, it was even difficult! In TV and radio, the audience is an abstraction. In the theater the audience becomes real, there are humans, real people in front of you. What was also difficult for me is that on radio or TV silence is prohibited, it’s a blank, a void. In the theater it is a language, and even a powerful language, so I had to manage this new orality that is that of the theater. In my career I’ve done a lot of things, radio, TV, books… but theater was the most difficult of all. And this is what makes me say today that it is the most original, the most daring development of sensitive business and it is the one that I prefer. It took me out of my comfort zone and it felt good!
“Sensitive Affairs”, the radio show, will celebrate its tenth anniversary in June 2024! How many cases have you handled?
Exactly 1,191 stories (as of October 17, date of the interview). I hope we will celebrate with France Inter, I haven’t yet imagined how but I would like to mark the occasion in June. It’s a show that has a future. With 6 to 7 million connections per month, it has been the most podcasted full-length show in France for a long time now. It’s a show made for podcasting, because it’s content radio, for which you have to be focused and available.
“Sensitive matters”
Women’s fight, December 8 at 8:30 p.m., in La Maline.
Duration: 1h20. Price: 15 to 25€
2023-11-17 10:05:28
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