Published on September 29, 2024 at 7:06 p.m. / Modified on September 29, 2024 at 7:20 p.m.
A dream big sister. Martine Paschoud, who died on Friday at the age of 82, was a torchbearer for generations of actors. She lit fires, first as a performer in the 1960s and 1970s, above all as a director and daring and inspired director of the Théâtre de Poche in Geneva. Between 1984 and 1996, she transfigured the small, elegant room of the Old Town into a frigate buzzing with intelligence, bursts of laughter or anger, debates, steaming bets that were often winning.
From the Théâtre de Poche, where she succeeded the actor Gérard Carrat in 1984, she created a unique place in French-speaking Switzerland and well beyond. A Germanophile, she programs the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, whose whipping prose she cherishes, but also Botho Strauss. Sensitive to writings that linger on the sidelines of fashion, she is passionate about Robert Walser – whose work she transposes Cinderella. Attached to works which are celebrations of the spirit, she casts a spell on Nephew of Rameau by Diderot, with the wonderful Jacques Denis – one of his favorite actors – and Dominic Noble.
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