“Culture the spirit of freedom”

You offer new shows. Tell us in addition …

Several works are scheduled until the end of spring: Candid, from Voltaire, Gargantua, From Rabelais… writers Colette and Alexandre Dumas also appear on stage, through two creations.

Your sister Daphné and your brother Sylvain participate in the programming of the theater. What does this family adventure reveal to us?

Our desire to remain faithful to the spirit of freedom of our Father, Philippe Tesson, who had a joyful, critical and tolerant look at things. Journalist, he considered theater as a tool for understanding the world and programmed the shows of the pocket in resonance with the news. This place is like a house to share between public and artists, in an accomplice spirit.

What other person has counted in your family?

Our mother! Doctor, she had founded and directed The doctor’s daily life, Pioneer of the medical press. Deeply authentic, she was our inspirer, the vital organ of our family.

A molten diamond.

You have three days, a backpack and no car. Where are you going?

I will walk in wild forests, places in which my mother drew incredible strength. As a poet of nature, she taught me to love trees.

A collective initiative that touches you?

For twenty-three years, I have set up a show promenade to the king’s vegetable patch every year, in Versailles, during the Molière month (Festival holding in June, editor’s note) . I like to cultivate the mind of a nomadic theater combining nature and heritage.

We offer you an hour of silence. What are you doing?

I listen to the Gregorian song!

Perfect alchemy between speech, music and silence, this art immerses me in a state of interiority which connects me to the divine.

A spiritual place where you like to take refuge?

Several times a month, I take silent breaks in a church in the Montparnasse district of Paris.

I sometimes soften myself, imbued with incense, light and confidence, then I come out invigorated by these times of meditation.

For you, Jesus is …

A man I would have liked to know! I sometimes find fragments of his kindness in some of my friends.