The French actor and director Didier Bezace, co-founder of the Théâtre de l'Aquarium and ex-director of the theater La Commune d'Aubervilliers, died "at his Parisian home, Wednesday March 11, 2020, at the age of 74, the consequences of a long illness which he fought with vigor and courage, ”announced his press secretary in a press release.
The national directors' union praised "his commitment and the integrity of his shows" which "will remain as markers of part of the history of theatrical decentralization in our country".
Didier Bezace had acted in around thirty films
In the cinema, he starred in around thirty films, including L.627 , It Begins Today by Bertrand Tavernier and La petite voleuse by Claude Miller, as well as in several dozen TV movies.
Co-founder in 1970 with Jean-Louis Benoît and Jacques Nichet of the Théâtre de l'Aquarium at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes which explores new forms, he became director of the Théâtre de la Commune d'Aubervilliers from 1997 to 2013.
As a director, he edited texts by classic and contemporary authors like Luigi Pirandello, Molière or Bertolt Brecht and in 2001, presented his version of L'Ecole des femmes de Molière at the Cour d'honneur at the Festival d'Avignon, with Pierre Arditi.
A director in the suburbs
A committed artist, in 2013 he had signed the book Une noce à Another - A director in the suburbs . The mayor of Aubervilliers, Meriem Derkaoui, paid tribute in a tweet to the man who "had managed to combine political theater and poetic theater".
It is with great sadness that I learn of the death of Didier Bezace, director and former director of the La Commune d'Aubervilliers theater. He knew how to combine political theater and poetic theater. The cultural world loses one of its most fervent defenders.
- Meriem Derkaoui (@Meriem_Derkaoui) March 11, 2020In 2004, he created Daniel Keene's Opinion with interested parties, who received the Critics' Prize for scenography and a nomination for the supporting role in Molières. In May 2005, he received the Molière for best adaptation and that of directing for the creation of La Version de Browning by Terence Rattigan.
In 2014, he created the company L’ entêtment amoureuse, including three pieces by Marguerite Duras and three pieces by Feydeau. In 2018, he created in Paris Il ya aura la jeunesse d'aimer, a reading show composed of texts by Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet around their literary and loving lives which he interpreted alongside Ariane Ascaride.
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