Paris (AFP)
Director Julie Deliquet has been appointed head of the Gérard Philipe Theater, joining the handful of women at the head of a national drama center, the Ministry of Culture announced on Monday.
Under Minister Franck Riester, in place since 2018, several women have been appointed head of a CDN, such as Chloé Dabert, head of the Comédie de Reims, Muriel Mayette-Holtz, at the Théâtre National de Nice and even Alexandra Tobelaim at the head of NEST, Thionville National Drama Center.
According to the 2019 report of the Gender Equality Observatory, out of the 38 CDNs (and regional drama centers), there were only 27% of directors.
Trained among others at the Montpellier Conservatory, Julie Deliquet stood out in particular for the two pieces she edited at the Comédie-Française: Oncle Vania by Tchekhov in 2017, and an adaptation in 2019 of "Fanny et Alexandre", the riverine work of Ingmar Bergman.
His recent adaptation of the film by Arnaud Desplechin, "A Christmas Tale" at the Théâtre de l'Odéon was hailed as a "spectacle resembling Shakespearean psychoanalysis" or even in "Chekhovian tale".
Since 2009, she has led a collective, In Vitro, which she founded and has been associated with the Gérard Philipe Theater since 2014.
It "proposes to focus its management at the Gérard Philipe Theater on transmission. Particular attention will be paid to young people who are far from the arts and culture and who are dropping out of school," the press release said.
Born for some from 1946, the CDNs are symbolic establishments of the decentralization policy born at the time as part of the democratization of culture.
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