The world of culture is particularly affected by the announcements of Jean Castex on a staggered reopening of theaters.

For Christophe Alévêque, who will record a performance of his next Thursday, "anger begins to rise" in the artistic world, psychologically undermined by repeated postponements.

INTERVIEW

We will have to wait for the reopening of theaters: we will not know until January 7 whether the French will be able to go to the theater or the cinema or not.

So decided by the government, while the indicators of the coronavirus epidemic do not seem to indicate an ebb for several days.

For comedian Christophe Alévêque, this postponement of the reopening of cultural places represents an absurd decision from a health point of view, as he denounces at the microphone of Europe 1, Saturday morning.

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"We don't sleep at night anymore"

"I heard the Prime Minister say that the priority was health. We all agree, but right now, he is ruining our health, ours," said the actor, who insists on the psychological discomfort of the cultural environment.

"I have lots of friends who, in this profession, have switched to antidepressants and anxiolytics. We no longer sleep at night, we talk to each other… There are plenty of them who have gone on to retrain in others jobs. "

He himself takes sleeping pills to be able to sleep, as

Le Figaro

indicated on 

 Friday.

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On Europe 1, Christophe Alévêque also responded to the director Mathieu Kassovitz, who welcomed the government's decision not to reopen theaters to protect the population.

"We all want to go out, but they have to do it (postpone reopening, editor's note) because they are protecting us and that is their job," he confided.

"We don't want to go out, we want to work," retorts Christophe Alévêque, irritated to see culture "considered as a useless commodity".