Laura Cappelle, The New York Times
Published: 15 Jan 2021 01:39 PM BdST
Updated: 15 Jan 2021 01:39 PM BdST Antoine Mathieu in “Kolik,” directed by Alain Françon, at Théâtre 14 in Paris. The New York Times
Call it the French spirit of resistance or contrariness. Officially, theatres here are shut, because of a new wave of coronavirus infections. Unofficially, there are still shows going ahead, behind closed doors. );
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Last weekend, for example, a “clandestine” performance of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” was held at a Paris theatre although the cameras of a popular talk show, “C à vous,” were there, too. The socially distanced audience was described as “regulars of the venue,” and an unmasked man told a journalist from the show that he was attending to protest the “gradual erosion of the freedom to live.”