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Édouard Baer, here in September 2023, in Venice, Italy.
THEATER – Édouard Baer returns to the stage. As relayed The Parisianthis Friday, November 22, a press release from the Théâtre Antoine in Paris announces the return of 57 year old actor on stage from January, six months after the cancellation of his last show in this same next theater accusations of sexual violence.
“ Everyone is wrong about Cyrano. Cyrano is a Rock… Friable, multiple, sensitive, whole, distraught, brilliant, faithful, abandoned by the graces and yet sparkling with heart and soul. Next to Cyrano we are all gray, definitely gray “, begins the said press release, announcing Édouard Baer in the shoes of the famous hero of Edmond Rostand.
This new play about Cyrano de Bergerac is directed by Olivier Solivérès, whose adaptation of Circles of missing poets at the Théâtre Libre received several Molières in 2024. Also present in the play: Alexia Giordano in the role of Roxane, Clément Moreau in that of Christian, and Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, of Guiche.
The announcement of the return of Édouard Baer reaches us while the performances of the months of June and July of his only one on stage baptized My application had been canceled, shortly after the publication of an investigation Mediapart And Cheek Magazine in which several women accused the comedian of sexual assault. None of these six women, aged around twenty at the time of the events, had filed a complaint at the time, according to the two media outlets.
Édouard Baer apologizes
“I do not recognize myself in the words or gestures attributed to me, but I can only express my regret that my behavior made these women uncomfortable or hurt. I didn’t have the intelligence to perceive it. I am deeply sorry. I never intentionally tried to hurt them. I apologize to them all,” the actor said in a written statement to both media outlets.
Words followed by a second cancellation, this time by the organizers of the Nuits de Fourvière festival, where the performance of another Édouard Baer show was to be held. They considered that it was not possible “ to put on a great show » under these conditions. This Friday, the ticket office for Cyrano de Bergerac opened. The show is scheduled from January 28 to April 27.
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