We don’t know what Sébastien Kheroufi whispers in the ear of his actors when he takes them aside to discuss with them the scene they have just rehearsed. Kneeling at the edge of the stage, he barely looks at what is happening before his eyes. His hand flutters, his fingers snap. He listens. “I just drive by ear. Once the sentence rings true, I can notice the actors”confesses the 32-year-old director whose show, Through the villagesis scheduled as part of the Autumn Festival at the Center Pompidou in Paris, then, in January, at the Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry (Val-de-Marne).
Discovered in 2023 with a hard and determined first staging ofAntigone, by Sophocles, this French-Algerian artist has no time to waste. “If I screw up, I screw up my life. » He is silent, then insists: “It’s true!” Born in the working-class districts of Hauts-de-Seine, Sébastien Kheroufi was raised by his mother. One of his brothers is imprisoned, the other abandons the family home. At 17, the young man found his father dead in a house of Emmaüs: “This vision killed the child in me. » Approaching Delinquency: Easy Money and Permanent State of Emergency. A dating and trusting prodigy, she is given a beautiful escape. He doesn’t let his luck slip away. A “great from the city” hosted him in London, discovered the cinema there and, unable to speak English, hung “to the lights, to the music, to the body of the films”. Go back to France.
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