As a spectator and an actor, I’ve had enough. It just doesn’t work for me anymore. I like the street because that’s real life. We meet real people there. Time doesn’t stop. There is no fourth wall like in the theatre. There, we are also more fragile as actors, but that also gives us a kind of adrenaline rush, it leads to something very powerful. There’s no safety net in the street. It’s also very cinematic. It is a mixture of play, fiction and realism in its purest form. It brings to mind Francis Bacon, who said that reality, as it is presented in theatres or performance venues, becomes uninteresting. It must be provoked, sought out. And it’s on the street, more than anywhere else, that you can do just that.

Le Dernier salut is an entirely atypical show, a journey through punk and poetry created by three actors who simply want to thank the audience for accompanying them for so many years. In fact, that’s one of the first things they say in the show: “it’s so cool to see you for once.” They can even go and touch them!

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Interview by Sophie Dupavé on 20 September 2019
With the collaboration of the Hôtel Métropole Bruxelles