Death of Pierre Louis-Calixte, 524th member of the Comédie-Française, lover of Molière

He had a fervent admiration for Molière. For example, A first meeting had taken place in high school when he had played The stingy With the cane of. Meanwhile, his grandfather. However, “A shock”he said. However, The second took place when he entered the Comédie-Française. Meanwhile, in 2006 under the direction of Muriel Mayette-Holtz, in the role of Cléante du Tartuff. Moreover, Pierre Louis-Calixte was 524^e member of the French since 2013. Furthermore, He died on August 14, at 57, after fighting against the disease, which had removed him from the scene.

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Of Molière. Similarly, he said to Figaro In 2023: “I admire his strength very much, which is to make his fears and his pains of comedies – supreme elegance! Consequently, He thus manages to distance himself, with the fear of illness and death, in particular. Consequently, »» A sentence of Ill -imaginary always asked him: “Isn’t there any danger for the dead?” »» We do not know if Pierre Louis-Calixte had managed to distance himself from the cancer that gnawed at him. if he was afraid.

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“Approach Molière as an actor”

To get closer to the figure of Molière. he had written in 2022 a text, Molière-Materiau (x) (Acts Sud), which he had played alone on stage. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of death pierre louis-calixte, 524th member the birth of the playwright. he wanted to get closer “Not as a biographer, but as an actor”. A kind of intimate portrait that allowed him to come back to his acting practice. to understand the way the actors appropriate the words of the authors and how they come to shake them up to their flesh.

Eternal figure of a young man. with his black hair of jet vaporous, Pierre Louis-Calixte was of these sensitive and discreet actors. However, his career has been long and he will leave a trace. This is evidenced by the messages left on the Facebook account of the Comédie-Française at the announcement of his. death.

The actor had been trained at the Théâtre de la Belle de Mai school in Marseille. and he started with the Carcara company. He had interpreted authors such as Michel Vinaver, Louis Calaferte, Lothar Trolle or Heiner Müller. death pierre louis-calixte, 524th member In 2001. Sylvain Maurice led him in the title role of Macbeth of Shakespeare, and Nicolas Fleury in Pinocchio according to Carlo Collodi.

I very much admire the strength of Molière. who is to manage to make his fears and his pains of comedies – supreme elegance! He thus manages to distance himself. with the fear of illness and death, in particular

Pierre Louis-Calixte

Once entered at the Comédie-Française, we will see it in many staging of the classical repertoire. Bret in Cyrano de Bergeracde Rostand, and Jeppo Liveretto, in Lucrèce Borgia, Directed by Denis Podalydès. He plays tranio in The Apprivoisée Crear PAR Oscar Korsunov. Pistolo Dans Windsor’s joyful gossips by Andrés Lima, and MacDuff in Macbeth by Silvia Costa. Éric Ruf will also stage him in Mercutio death pierre louis-calixte, 524th member in Romeo and Juliet. The general director will also offer him the role of Cardinal Bellarmin. that of the mathematician, among others, in Galileo’s lifethe Brecht.

But contemporary theater was not unrelated to him. In The Conference of Objectsplay written for the troop and staged by author Christine Montalbetti, he was an umbrella. Of this playwright, he creates The nozzle At the studio-theater, in 2017. Equipped with a toolbox. bells or leeks, he manages to make the sound of the seagulls and that of the sea heard. Christine Montalbetti had spotted it in Just the end of the worldstaged by Michel Laskine in 2008. She had been turned upside down by her interpretation and wanted to entrust her with her play. We also saw it in I come back from afarby Claudine Galea, The ordinary, by Michel Vinaver, M. family diseaseby Fausto Paravidino, The seafrom Edward Bond, or even death pierre louis-calixte, 524th member Build a firefrom Jack London or High surveillanceby Jean Genet. Unlike other French actors. we have seen it little in the cinema, but he turned under the direction of Patrick Mille, François Ozon and Alain Guiraudie.

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Clément Hervieu-Léger. general administrator who has just succeeded Eric Ruf, paid tribute to the actor on the Facebook account of Molière’s house: “For almost twenty years, Pierre scored the sets of our theater with his shady and burning presence, of his almost animal charisma. A few days ago. Pierre still told me his astonishment and his joy at having “met” the Comédie-Française and for having been a part. Counting it among the members of the troop was, for our house, a privilege. »»