INTERVIEW
Philippe Caubère is on the stage of the Rond-Point theater in Paris, until January 2020. The actor plays his part Adieu Ferdinand! Suite and end that comes in three shows, alternately, each evening. The end point of his work The novel of an actor , which brings together eleven shows of three hours. An autobiographical artistic approach started in 1981, on which he returns in Culture Media on Europe 1.
"It's a bit of a conclusion around this whole adventure"
"There remained these two sequences ( The Casino Namur I , Casino Namur II and The Whale and the naturist camp ) I regretted not having played, so I paid for this pleasure," says Philippe Caubère. As a comedian and director of his own life, he estimates that he is closing a job begun in 1981, nearly 40 years ago. "It's a bit of a conclusion around this whole adventure, around this character who is Ferdinand, my alter-ego," he says.
"Initially, this project was a literary project"
In the plays composing the novel of an actor , Philippe Caubère "plays (s) a youth". "It's a youth novel, learning love and artistic", describes the actor. "Initially, this project was a literary project, I wanted to write a novel: the novel of my life, but I did not know how to do it," he laments. Finally, Philippe Caubère turned to what he could do best: play and improvise. "I wrote the novel of my life with the means of an actor," he says. With this new fragment of his existence on stage, Philippe Caubère hopes in any case that it will be "a pleasure also for the public."