In Suchy, the curtain has just returned to the five performances of “si? Lucky yes! »Show that highlighted the story of Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice, the editor of theYverdon Encyclopedia. This historic fresco, interpreted in the town hall by a troop combining professional and amateur actors, was a great popular success, rightly so. Co-written by Joël Fillion and Jean-Néville Dubuis, directed by the latter, the show turned out to be as entertaining as rhythmic and didactic. Jean-Néville dedicated it to Isabelle, his wife too soon missing.
At 81, Jean-Néville Dubuis continues to put passion in all his activities. Asking him what are his best memories is to get to answer that they are those of the future: a great lesson in optimism. Man was born in Orbe, but grew up in Pully. Orbe, for him, it was first the holidays on the Tournelle Chemin, with a grandfather who gave him a taste for things of nature. Since then, chewing fruit, he has struggled to do it outside those picked up directly at the tree. Orb, for him, is a place of passions, which he would in no case want to spoil by remaining there.
The theater, Jean-Néville discovered it at nine, during a gymnastics evening in Jouxtens. An emerging passion that led him to the popular courts then organized by the Coop, with the actors Paul Pasquier and Gil Pidoux as professors, who will become a faithful companion in theater as in friendship.
His professional life begins with a business learning, immediately followed by learning as a decorator, at a time when the art of beautifying the windows was recognized. Young Jean-Néville dreamed of traveling; An announcement placed in a Hong Kong newspaper finally led him to a store in … Oslo. Not for a long time: after six months of a job of which any idea of creativity was banned, here he is back, broke. At the end of a three-month trip to hitchhiking, he finds employment in the Lausanne windows.
An event will upset his life: as he goes up the Petit-Chêne in Lausanne, he meets a Gil Pidoux at the run that just has time to tell him: Telephone me! This is how he is engaged for the sets of the artistic fifteen of Orb, and even to play a role of a timpanier. The fortnight will be its favorite performance ground for a few years. In turn actor, decorator, director (nine times), his biggest moment of pride remains the «Till Eulenspiegel“Who had set in motion all the esplanade of the castle. He will leave the fortnight after the twentieth edition.
Dubuis’ commitment to the world of theater has gone through the Roman School of Dramatic Art. A training which offered him some roles but above all, thanks to his training as a decorator, allowed him to work as a machinist on different scenes, including that of associated actors as technical chief, in the municipal theater of Lausanne, in tours in Switzerland and Europe.
The meeting with Isabelle in an Urbigen cafe was more than a love at first sight: an authentic evidence for both. From their union were born two children, Néville and Géraldine, of whom he is very proud.
It was in Suchy that the family has been established since 1987. Being neither a native of Suchy, nor a farmer, Jean-Néville did not see a good eye of the idea of being part of the General Council. In spite of everything to come and discover a session, he found himself, as he said “without his own free will”, appointed secretary of the Assembly – a responsibility he has exercised with loyalty and passion for 34 years, but which he will abandon at the end of the current legislature.
To the question “Can we live from the world of theater?” “, His answer is” difficult to “. Jean-Néville never lacked resources: we were able to know him as a master specializing in Lausanne schools, as an independent painter, as an interim deliveryman, jobs that have shaped him and in which he has always invested. A life full of twists and turns, which offered him rich meetings, solid friendships. And at a time of a retirement that wants to be active, he takes full advantage of it.
