![]() “If a society forgets that theater is absolutely necessary, it is dead,” he said. ![]() The unnamed, albeit easily recognizable, director of the theater later defended the rule breach onscreen. 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.” Last weekend, for example, a “clandestine” performance of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” was held at a Paris theater - although the cameras of a popular talk show, “C à vous,” were there, too. Unofficially, there are still shows going ahead, behind closed doors. Officially, theaters here are shut, because of a new wave of coronavirus infections. ![]() PARIS - Call it the French spirit of resistance - or contrariness. ![]()
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