Jean-Marc Chotteau

Known as an actor, author and play director, Jean-Marc Chotteau adapted various literary texts to theatre: Bouvard et Pécuchet after Flaubert, Petites misères de la vie conjugale after Balzac, La Comédie du Paradoxe after Diderot and Praise of Folly by Erasmus.
He also wrote theatre plays such as La Revue, Le Jour où Descartes s’est enrhumé, L’Endroit du Théâtre, Comma and Night Shop. His writings are sometimes inspired by original scenery specially imagined for "alternative" locations: Éloge de la paresse in a "bourloire" (a traditional French bowl playground), La Vie à un fil in a disused factory, Prises de Becs au gallodrome in a cockpit. Lately, within Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture, he created a theatre diptych called "TEXTO" made of two productions: Le Bain des pinsons in a disused swimming pool and Jouer comme nous in the cloister of an former monastery.
Since 1982, he has been managing his theatre company which is established in northern France and whose plays tour all around the country (Paris, Festival d'Avignon, etc…) and in Belgium. 1999, the company turned into La Virgule, a cross-border centre for theatrical creation.