Life is beautiful, Patrick Chesnais kills himself to tell you!

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Cover of Patrick Chesnais' book "Life is beautiful, I kill myself to tell you!" © The Archipelago

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

"Life is beautiful, I kill myself to tell you says the flower and it dies" Soleil de Mars, Jacques Prévert. The actor Patrick Chesnais takes as the title of his book the beginning of this poem by Jacques Prévert. The tone is set right away. Who does he want to convince? The reader himself, both?

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It is a very syncopated book, with very short scenes and others longer, without chronological order, with back and forth between laughter and tears. It is the story of a man who has gone through the worst drama, the death of a child, of an actor too, capable by his acting and by a non-feigned humanity, of creating in us everything a lot of emotions. Patrick Chesnais looks back on his career, his profession, his loves, his joys, his sorrows, his shit, the men and women he loves, his tribulations of actors in a raw story about the comic and tragic theater that is life. Life is good, I kill myself to tell you! has appeared in editions of the Archipelago.

Right now Patrick Chesnais is on the stage of the Bouffes Parisiens. He plays a Feydeau entitled The Ribadier System staged by Ladislas Chollat ​​that our reporter Fanny Bleichner met.

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