Actor Rufus hosts workshops in high school

Rufus in Vanuatu

Rufus to Port Vila! Actor Rufus played in more than 80 films with directors as different as Jean-Pierre mocky, Claude Lelouch, Caro and Jeunet or Godard. For example, he was the father of Amélie foal, wondering where his garden dwarf had gone.

But Rufus also has a long career at the theater. This is where he begins by co-writing plays with Jacques Higelin and Brigitte Fontaine around 1968. He is then found as an actor in the Cour d’honneur of the festival d’avignon or in several plays by Beckett whose staging remained famous while waiting Godot of Walter D. Asmus which remains the only staging approved by the author.

Theatre Workshops for our students

On a visit to Vanuatu, Rufus gave us the pleasure of agreeing to come and host several theatre workshops.

How can I say no? Is it that simple? How to say no with the voice but also with the body? Say no to the head, the body or the belly, here is what the students of the third discovered. At an age when you start to have more autonomy, you have to know how to say yes, sometimes not and how to make it heard without ambiguity. It is, beyond mere exercise, this reflection to which Rufus has brought the students.

Terminal Gmts we learned to find their voice. Starting with a poem by Beckett that had to be filled with an intention. A few words that are enough to make you understand how to stand upright and how to convey a feeling:

Imagine if this
one day this
a beautiful day
imagine
if one day
a beautiful day this
would stop
imagine

Finally, the S and ES terminals worked specifically on scenes from the waiting Godot they had chosen. Rufus questioned them about the meaning they gave to the play and gave them advice not to betray the text: « Let the grass grow between the aftershocks », a way of saying that one should not be afraid of the silence on stage. But also a hint on the tone of the play: « It is called in at-ten-Godot, too often the characters give the reverse the impression of not expecting anything more, not to have hope. It is the opposite, they wait, they create, they cling, they hope. « 

Thanks to Rufus for the time and energy he devoted to our students.