France: intermittent entertainment workers occupy national theaters to protest
The Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris, in January 2021. © Siegfried Forster / RFI
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The Théâtre national de l'Odéon in Paris has been occupied for a week by intermittent entertainment workers tired of waiting for the green light from the government to work in this period of pandemic.
And since Tuesday March 9, it is the turn of the Théâtre de la Colline and the National Theater of Strasbourg to be occupied, that is to say three out of four national theaters.
The fourth being the Comédie Française.
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Each afternoon, an appointment is given with the artists and the public in front of the theaters to take stock and express themselves.
There was a festival air this Wednesday afternoon in front of the Odeon where a hundred people gathered.
The atmosphere is good-natured even if the demands are serious and of the order of survival for the entertainment world.
In the foreground of the requests the reopening of the rooms and the resumption of work for the artists.
Indeed, there is a great lack of understanding in the face of the government's decisions to leave businesses open while keeping theaters and cinemas closed.
Especially since the sanitary rules have always been respected in the rooms and no cluster has been observed.
Another demand: to extend the white year for intermittent workers at the end of their rights today for lack of having been able to accumulate hours.
A call is made to all intermittents in France to occupy the theaters.
For the moment, in addition to the Odeon, the Théâtre national de la Colline and the Théâtre national de Strasbourg are occupied by theater students.
And since this Wednesday noon the Graslin theater in Nantes, occupied by artists and technicians, has just joined the movement.
For the government, we are a non-existent portion
Alice Zeniter, author and actress
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