While in NY promoting her book - Happy are the Happy, writer Yasmina Reza sat down with Violaine Huisman for a conversation that was published in the Paris Review. In The Fabric of a Life: An Interview with Yasmina Reza, Ms Reza shares a few insights on the theater... A very interesting article...Francofiles and theater enthusiasts must check it out...
On productions of her plays that lack vision...
I’ve sat in the audience, mortified...the actors were bad, the rhythm was off, there was no intimate understanding of the lines, no vision …Today, related to production of her plays all around the world Ms Reza thinks -- It’s not a good idea to intervene—you have to let it be.
On the conciseness of her writing...
...my impatience is to blame. Nothing bores me more than long introductions, explanations of childhood, that heavy backpack of contextualization....
I feel much closer to a painter than a writer. A painter doesn’t waste any time.On French theater..
When I started out...there were dozens of great directors in France, but the theater landscape has been completely decimated...Today...I can’t think of a single stage director I’d like to work with in my own language.On American and British theater...
I feel it’s too neat, too well done, too structured, there’s too much of a desire to entertain.
And English actors are just so extravagant—they really overdo it. I kept thinking as I watched them perform, Hold it, rein it in a little!
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