INTERVIEW
Christophe Alévêque is used to playing his "Press review" at the Rond Point theater. Health crisis requires, he can no longer do so. So the humorist made a crazy bet: to play a show in the same theater but in front of an empty room. "March 19-May 19, the black hole", shot Tuesday, is broadcast on YouTube from Wednesday and May 29 at midnight on France 3. Guest of "Culture Media" Wednesday, Christophe Alévêque confides on the strangeness of this experience.
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"It's an experience I will never do again!"
If the humorist chose to film himself and broadcast this show, it is above all for a "very selfish" reason, as he himself recognizes. "It was to do me good because this period made me extremely angry, so I needed to let go," he explains. "And then we live in an absurd world, so I pushed the absurdity to the end. It's also a way to say hello and say that we're here. Because we, the family of the theater, we feel a little abandoned ", underlines Christophe Alévêque.
To play a show without spectators is also to play a show in silence, without audience laughter, so without knowing whether the jokes are working or not. "I really threw myself into the void. Besides, I think it's an experience that I will never do again!" Says the humorist. "I have never been so scared."
Fortunately, he could count on Jean-Michel Ribes, actor and director of the Rond Point theater, installed in a corner of the room, to whom he had said to stop him if he felt "the catastrophe". "What was very strange is that I had the feeling, when I closed my eyes, from time to time, to hear the public," said Christophe Alévêque. "But this silence, when I returned, it took me. There were a lot of emotions. Between theory and practice, as the government would say, there is a world," he adds.
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"Anger has risen"
The inspiration for this press review came to him during the confinement. "The anger has risen. What struck me most was that we stopped thinking. All of a sudden, we had the brain in formalin. No questioning, no thinking "We are confined. Well, colonel! And basta." It also evokes the fact that the coronavirus occupied all the news, as if the planet had stopped turning.
During the confinement, Christophe Alévêque also took the opportunity to embark on the writing of his next show and to finish writing his novel, which he describes as "a kind of tale for adults which starts from a very dramatic to go towards a rebirth ".