A gala evening, is it a bit of a stripping in the sense that you portray characters who, on certain points, resemble you a little, a lot?
This desire to multiply myself has was above all the desire to embody characters even crazier, sicker and more bizarre than myself. Through my Soir de gala, I also depict a modern society that is a little crazy and a little screwed up at times. Either we go outside and fight the bad guys, or we don't care and laugh about it. And there we win!
Who is the most detestable character in your portrait gallery?
They are all a little gratinated. I am thinking of this 7-year-old child, Léonie, who suffered from asperger's syndrome*. While she was young, she embodied all the cruelty of adults. Léonie reflects this cruel, narcissistic, megalomaniac, too fast, hysterical world...
Which one do you love the most?
I keep changing my mind from one night to the next. At the moment, it's this female travel agent who is receiving a somewhat unusual client.
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Since the start of the tour, have there been any changes, have you made any fixes or completely skipped scenes?
A little, but not a lot. When I start playing, I'm very ready. Everything is well set, even if afterwards, small things can evolve, in the game, the inventions... These are just changes that can be seen down to the millimeter. It's important for me not to do everything according to the audience. Because it's good to give him something other than what he expects!
"I don't consider myself a hero; I am monstrous in many ways. We all are a bit. Through my characters, I make fun of myself a little." Photo Guillaume Malheiro
A gala evening is also a great meeting with the public. Who is he?
I am marked by the presence of people of all generations. It's not so common to see a grandfather, a teenager, a slightly bourgeois couple side by side... This landscape of very vast spectators upsets me at each performance, I who perform in all categories of halls .
Comedian with a rather urban image, even a little bobo, revealed in Quotidien on TMC and on France Inter, you love this immersion in the France of the territories, deep France...
I am a child of Burgundy, having discovered the spectacle in the middle of the vineyards, during my childhood in Saône-et-Loire. I still remember the companies setting up a stage and the trestles in the middle of the village. I myself played a lot in the villages, when I was learning my trade in Saint-Etienne.
"In the past, the stars went everywhere. My parents applauded Léo Ferré in a village in Saône-et-Loire. I reconnect with the approach of these acrobats who brought entertainment everywhere, as in the time of Molière. For For me, that's the meaning of my job: putting my little characters in my suitcase and going to play them everywhere."
Vincent Dedienne (comedian)
Is laughter different from one region to another?
It can even be different from one evening to another. People can be more sensitive to certain characters. One evening, Léonie can make people laugh and the next evening, not at all. Nothing is planned in advance, that's what allows me to never get bored going on stage.
What do you demand in your dressing room when you arrive at a theatre, a bottle of champagne, DVDs of Louis de Funès or the latest Houellebecq?
[Laughs] I only wish there was only one piece of cheese from the region, with a small piece of bread. There, I'm happy. Anyway, cheese is the basis of my diet.
Do you have time to visit the area where you just do the show and then say, as soon as the curtain falls, "goodbye friends"?
It depends on the time spent in the city. I always try to take a walk there. A show is also an opportunity to stroll around a bit, to discover a region.
Honestly, do you ever get nervous?
I'm still a little nervous, but it's impatience and joy that take over everything in their path. I'm so happy to be on stage that it doesn't paralyze me at all.
Not even afraid of a memory lapse!
Never, at least not yet. Anyway, a memory lapse never lasts very long. And I do everything so that the public does not notice it.
Honestly, do you prefer the scene in solo or collegiate mode?
I couldn't live without either.
"Between the Covid and the war in Ukraine, we are going from disaster to disaster. But it will be fine, if I refer to this sentence by the philosopher Walter Benjamin that I like very much. He says: "It will go badly for humanity, really very badly. But it will still go!" Photo Jean-Louis Fernandez.
Your first gala as a spectator?
A Michel Fugain concert in Mâcon. And also Pierre Palmade, in the same town. It was a good mix!
A recent survey by the newspaper Le Parisien on people and presidential elections highlights that artists no longer get too wet for a candidate. And you?
We still see artists in meetings, but we give them so much to talk about, when they don't always want to add more. Each his trade.
And what about the war in Ukraine?
What do you want me to tell you? We must compete with enthusiasm and optimism. Between the Covid and the war in Ukraine, we are going from disaster to disaster. But it will be fine, if I refer to this phrase by the philosopher Walter Benjamin that I like very much. He said, "It's going to go badly for humanity, really very badly. But it will go all the same!"
*A person with Asperger's Syndrome has Autism Spectrum Disorder
A gala evening, by Vincent Dedienne. At Joué-les-Tours, Espace Malraux, Friday 8 April. In Vernouillet, at the Atelier à spectacle, on Saturday April 9, at 8.30 p.m. Such. 02.37.42.60.18. There are places left. From June 21 to July 2, at the Théâtre Marigny, in Paris. All dates on booking platforms and on www.vincentdedienne.fr
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Olivier Bohin
