The Salins Theater, national stage of Martigues, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, has decided to honor all of its contracts, notably those of the show's intermittent workers, despite the cancellations due to the coronavirus pandemic, announced its director Gilles Bouckaert.
"We decided to honor all the contracts we had signed" and to pay "the salaries of the artists, technicians and all the costs already incurred", explained Gilles Bouckaert. "We will pay our intermittents on canceled shows, so that they keep their hours and their rights," he said.
"The idea is to be united"
"The idea is to be united, to avoid by ricochet that the companies put the key under the door, to pay the artists, the technicians and the expenses already committed, even to propose cash advances", developed the director.
This decision aims "especially to defend culture in general, a system that can only hold if it works in a network," he added. We are distribution structures, if the artists no longer exist, after (confinement, note), we too are disappearing ”.
The coronavirus crisis has hit the performing arts world hard. Gilles Bouckaert evokes "all these shows which cannot be created because we cannot repeat" or the absence of festivals, "notably the window of that of Avignon".
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