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The beauty of a baptism. Emilie Charriot, 38, has made her mark on the French-speaking scene in recent years, the Arsenic in Lausanne and the Saint-Gervais Theater in Geneva in 2014 with King Kong Theorie according to Virginie Despentes, the Théâtre de Vidy with Contempt of the public by Peter Handke in particular. But this time – and it’s a sacred sign of recognition – it is at the National Theater of Strasbourg (TNS), one of the great French houses, that she created A feeling of life (Ed. Espaces 34) by Claudine Galea, on view at Vidy from Wednesday. Better, Emilie Charriot guides Valérie Dréville, her idol, as she says, in the meanders of a text which oscillates between self-portrait of the writer and hello to a father in tatters.
