The former Keeper of the Seals Robert Badinter publishes a collection of three plays, "Théâtre I", with Editions Fayard, which combines justice, fiction and history.
Guest of Patrick Cohen Monday on Europe 1, he tells the birth of his passion for dramatic art in Paris in the 1950s, under the spell of Sartre, Beauvoir and Ionesco.
INTERVIEW
It is a work born from a deep passion.
Robert Badinter is publishing for the first time a collection of three plays called
Théâtre I
by Fayard editions, which combines history, justice and fiction.
The love of the former Keeper of the Seals for plays and the stage dates back to his studies at the Sorbonne.
"When I returned to Paris after the Liberation, I rushed to the theater, like a whole generation of students," he remembers Monday at the microphone of Patrick Cohen on Europe 1.
Theater II
already in writing
Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, Ionesco, Anouilh… The biggest names in French literature then publish and perform their masterpieces.
"The theater was a huge attraction for us. And the plays were always followed by lively discussions. Since that distant time, I have been passionately fond of the theater. I consider it to be the superior literary art", says Robert Badinter.
To go from amateur to playwright was however not easy: "Writing a play is very different from seeing those of others represented."
The former Keeper of the Seals, however, seems to have taken the game: he has already started writing
Theater II
.
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Several directors have already shown "signs of interest" vis-à-vis his first text.
"But to be played, theaters would already have to reopen ...", he sighs.
The rooms occupy according to him an "essential" function in the country.
"I tell myself that once the vaccination campaign is advanced, even if we must always take precautions, we must reopen the theaters. Even in front of a half-empty room, the actors are made to play, the parts to be represented. "
The biography of his grandmother adapted into a comic strip
The release of his collection of plays coincides by chance with that of the comic book adaptation of the biography he had written of his grandmother, Idiss.
She had reached Paris in 1912, fleeing anti-Semitism and the pogroms of Czarist Russia.
His book, released in 2018, has just been adapted by Richard Malka and Fred Bernard.
"I appreciate the result very much. The arrival of Idiss at the Gare de l'Est, the snow-covered ghetto… It is very nicely designed. And my grandmother will find a new audience there," he rejoices. .