Abstract
Is there a right way to say verse ? In a house like the Comédie-Française, which relies on a permanent troupe where the art of telling is passed down from one generation to the next, on stage and in the corridors, there are many different approaches, but one common certainty : in verse as in prose, you have to tell a story and make meaning heard. Using Racine's Phèdre as a starting point, Éric Ruf and Dominique Blanc evoke the modernity of classical verse.
Dominique Blanc
Trained at the Cours Florent, where she studied under Francis Huster and Pierre Romans, Dominique Blanc began her acting career under the direction of Patrice Chéreau, who was to remain the beacon of her career in both theater and film. It was in his production of Phèdre at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe that she met ÉricRuf : she is his Phèdre, he is her Hippolyte.
On stage, she performed under the direction of Jean-Pierre Vincent, Antoine Vitez, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau, Deborah Warner and others. Her film credits include Patrice Chéreau, of course, but also Claude Chabrol, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Christophe Honoré and Katell Quillévéré. In 2016, she joined the Comédie-Française and became a member in 2021, performing both classical and contemporary repertoires in productions by Stéphane Braunschweig, Julie Deliquet, Arnaud Desplechin, Ivo van Hove, Lars Norén and Guy Cassiers. In 2023, she was admitted to the Baccalauréat program, specializing in theater, and published Chantiers, je, a book of interviews in which she reflects on her career, her art of acting and her life.
