"Madame Bachelot makes me stack": the director of a Mayennais theater calls for civil disobedience

"Artists, culture will die" is the cry of distress pushed by Jean-Luc Bansard, guest of the morning of France Bleu Mayenne this Friday.The Mayennais actor, director of the drawer theater in Laval, calls for civil disobedience, rebellion.All cultural establishments are closed because of the coronavirus epidemic and no reopening date is currently fixed.

A call for help, an act of resistance

This Saturday, January 30, he will participate in the national operation "open theaters" whose principle is simple: to open all the theaters of France at the same time, for an hour, and welcome the public with masks, frost and theDistance: "An act of resistance resolved but no distrust of legality, we must act in respecting health precautions, but by affirming loud and clear that the vitality of living art cannot be a variable of adjustment.Our economic sector has been kneeling, dependence on compensation should not be a reason to be silent.Let us unite on January 30 for the spring of a hope to reflect in our rooms ".

Jean-Luc Bansard does not consider himself a martyr or a resistant.He expresses his distress, almost his despair, to see what he calls discrimination imposed by the government to the places of culture confides to France Bleu Mayenne: "We are prepared for a merchandise society and noculture.Many companies will die, actors will change jobs ".He fears for the future of the post-Cavid cultural sector: "In the next world, there will only be state cultural institutions and large communities that will be able to offer works of imagination".

"Madame Bachelot, she makes me stack"

To fully understand the current discomfort, the impoverishment of those who are part of the cultural environment, the director of the theater of the drawer takes the example of a musician who works for his company: "He lost 40 shows, he did notcan no longer pay your bills ".He finally targets the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, who badly defends the sector: "She makes me stack, she has great declarations of love for artists.When we say that we love someone, you have to show it, prove it ".

"We are not virus diffusers"

Jean-Luc Bansard therefore requests the reopening of cultural establishments, "less dangerous for the circulation of virus than public transport, supermarkets or places of worship.People are responsible.Culture is essential ".