Charles Berling is acting and directing C’est si simple l’amour by Lars Norén at the Jeu de Paume theater in Aix-en-Provence until March 7. On this occasion, the actor met about ten of our readers. He discussed his view of theater as catharsis, his role as director of the national stage Châteauvallon-Liberté in Toulon and Ollioules*, which he will leave in August 2026. Always committed against the far right, he reaffirmed his anti-National Rally (RN) fight and denounced his desire for control over the cultural and media world, in Toulon and elsewhere. Excerpts.
Lars Norén goes “to the end of human contradictions”
“Who hasn’t experienced a drunken evening among friends that goes wrong? We witness this in this play. […] Lars Norén is anything but vulgar, he is of great delicacy, of great finesse on the human stage, but he dares to write extreme behaviors. My character is abominable, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic. His characters are all abominable, but still touching. Theater is there to go to the end of our human contradictions. Lars Norén is a great artist because he is not in a binary morality. Theater is made for…
