“” “To move a theater is not easy to get into the place, settle there and appropriate it with the new technological environment. There are several aspects to take into account. A hectic project with this fire over 4 years ago. Not everything can be ready nickel on D -Day of the inauguration.“Reports Xavier Crossidirector of Beauvaisis Theater. The day before, the teams activated late in the evening to prepare for the successful event that hosted 2,000 visitors.
Everything is not yet perfect, it is still necessary to wipe the plaster a little, the time to take charge of this new tool and its technical equipment whose range far exceeds that of provisional theater in which the team succeeded in maintaining a quality program worthy of the national scene For 10 years of “penance”In this structure that showed its limits. “” “Sometimes it was so strong that we didn’t even hear the actors on the set!”Remembers Xavier Crossi.
A powerful working tool
“” “This building is a real success. It is glazed from everywhere so well that you have the impression of seeing Beauvais everywhere and that Beauvais is in the building. It’s nice for everyone: teams, artists who have beautiful lodges, the public … we win in comfort general. Another big change and advantage is that there is two roomsa large and a small one. It is powerful as a working tool because it allows you to work on the question of the public and attendance through a programming at different levels and to diversify the proposals. ” comments the director.
“” “The large room that can accommodate almost 700 people with Federating shows As with the two performances at the end of January of Don Juan who made a packed room. And the small room with 180 places which allows to offer another type of more intimate shows and to welcome Companies in residence Before presenting their creation in the large room. One of the challenges of the national scenes label is to make sure to make access to all access to the theater so that no one feels excluded, if only through an adapted pricing policy. “
Three months of homelessness
The seasons being scheduled from one year to the next, so that from its inauguration, the theater and its teams were able to be operational to accommodate companies. The next 2025-2026 season is complete. “” “It is a bet to take. We had planned part of this season’s programming Out of the walls From October to December 2024, since the structure of the provisional theater was no longer available. So for several months, we had no more room and all the equipment was dismantled to be installed here. We played the barn of the Awkwardnessand homelessness. From January, knowing that we would be in the new theater, we planned the programming knowing its technical and reception capacities. Knowing that the inauguration would be on January 11, we were able to anticipate a year in advance to plan the first show on January 30.“” “
A year of evenings to accompany the appropriation of the theater
“” “An inauguration is not easy. This is why this inaugural appropriation process will be accompanied for several months.”It is in this context that an event connected to the 800 years of the cathedral who symbolically watches over the environment, entitled “Watchers“. “” “A creation of a choreographer who interested us in this appropriation of the theater because it associates people who are not necessarily in dance to a General choreographic gesture. It will be set up in September 2025 over a period of one year. In all, 2 times 365 or 800 Watchers Volunteers will watch over the “Watcue shelters” community which will be created in the rounded part of the theater. These evenings will be done for an hour at sunrise and an hour at sunset. Throughout this operation, there will be meetings between watchers led by the choreographer and his dancers during evenings, with shows, moments of exchanges and conviviality. This year will end with a large banquet bringing together the 800 watchers“, A surprise in preparation in connection with the cathedral.
A long long -awaited tool that the director will not take long to entrust him with key in hand within a few months to his or his successor to his retirement.
