Baptiste Znamenak, from the Jeanne-Hachette high school in Beauvais at the Avignon festival
On Thursday July 7, the Avignon festival has just started. And at the bar-show Le Marseillais, spectators then attend a reading of a play written and directed by Baptiste Znamenak: Air Mouette. A truly ” chance “ for this young beauvaisien.
“The owner of the place offered me his room for one evening and it worked well. We met producers, directors and actors who told us to continue on this path.says the theater enthusiast.
It is, moreover, a path that has interested him since childhood: “I have always loved telling stories. I write that I would have liked to live and suddenly, it’s memories. »
“My first troupe is my family”
Baptiste Znamenak’s first steps with the theater were thus made through writing and the imagination, but also with his family. “Every evening, I put on a show for my parents, remembers Beauvaisien. My first troupe is my family and that’s where I discovered that I could have fun. »
He will have the opportunity to do it even more by applying the theater option at the Jeanne-Hachette high school before joining the Cours Florent, in Paris. “This town was calling me”loose the 23-year-old young man who has lived in the capital for five years now.
And at the start of the school year in September, Baptiste Znamenak will insert the ESCA studioin Asnières-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) which is none other than the National School of Dramatic Art. ” I’m so happy, Launches the Beauvaisien. I did not expect it because there are so many candidates and 16 are taken in the end. »
On the boards right now for Electra or The Twilight of the Kings for nearly 30 dates, he was spotted by Erine Serano, director, who asked him to join her play.
“I’m going to play at the Théâtre des Déchargeurs at Châtelet, a beautiful contemporary theatre, in October-November in a play on the Second World War”says the one who is eager to start this new project, entitled Traumabefore returning to Avignon next year.
“The owner of the bar-show Le Marseillais, which she wants to transform into a cabaret theatre, offered to play for us all month. Its objective is to give a voice to young people who do not have the means to pay for a theater so that we can be listened to and have fun. “, slips Baptiste Znamenak.
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“Changing the theatrical environment”
Moreover, a director offered him to make a screenplay of his play to adapt it to the big screen. “There is nothing that is done”specifies the young Beauvaisien to whom on one already said that his style of writing resembles scenarios.
“It changes the theatrical environment and I try to make it more contemporary to try to reach young people who go more to the cinema and who unfortunately abandon the theater”he argues.
Between waking up, writing, rehearsals and indoor games in the evening, going through research and sending texts to publishing houses, his days are busy but he wants “keep having fun and living day by day” a passion. Carpe Diem.