Therefore Terzieff fell into the magic potion

He would not want the mourning. That sowed Laurent Terzieff in moving land of Theatre will never disappear: a requirement, humility, elegance, absolute commitment, a way to stop the time by entering stage. The artist died at seventy-five years of pulmonary complications, will be remembered this total actor who able to transcend genres, exceed the old public-private divide. In moved tributes to fly since the announcement of his death Saturday, words come back: "light", "brotherhood" (Fabrice Luchini), "The voice of the theatre" (Olivier Py)...

He is remembered for his last role: "Philoctetes", by Sophocles, staged by Christian Schiaretti at the Odéon. More thin as ever, such a crystal rod ready to break, he embodied the old humiliated hero, as a young man, Achille, back to life with a glowing fever. His voice nasal check, from the whispering in the ROAR was resonate every word and gesture of the tragedy, as if he was playing on stage the lives of all men forgotten by the gods. Thought then happily this masterful interpretation of a classic role (he in played very little) in a large theatre, he would be discovered - in time - by an audience of high school students. These young people will, hopefully, marked for life of the seal of the theatre.

Therefore, Terzieff fell into the magic potion. Young person by the "Sonata of Spectra", Strindberg, directed by Roger Blin. In the early 1950s, he literally camped on the boards in turn contained, Machinist, blower, obtaining her first role in "All against all", to Adamov, mounted by Jean-Marie Serreau. The years 1958-1959 marked a turning point: the actor made a tobacco film in "The cheaters", Marcel Carné, and then in the theatre, in "Tête d'Or", Claudel, directed by Jean-Louis Barrault. "The actor to the mouth of Angel" could opt for the glamour of the seventh art and for the glory. He opted for the more austere world of theatre. In 1961, he founded his company with Pascale de Boysson (his partner and companion, disappeared in 2002), from one small theatre to another (Lutetia, shaft, etc.).

He has not given up all completely film, sought by its biggest names: Bolognini, Rossellini, Demy, Clouzot, Buñuel, Godard... In fifty years it will still have played in over 40 films. But for Terzieff, the priority of priorities will always be the stage. His taste for the "live" theatre the grows in search of "nine" and to contemporary authors - often Anglo-Saxon or Eastern (Albee, Schisgal, Mrozek). His last scene release date of 2009. It is "The dresser", Ronald Harwood, a piece in which he played an old Shakespearean actor after the roll touring in England during the war. In the end, he "died" in his lodge... almost like Molière.

Laurent Terzieff was not part of these purely instinctive players. It was a great intellectual crazy philosophy and poetry, a hired man, a Marxist desperate can combine freedom and equality. The sacred fire prevented him not to think, meditate performances and its roles. It remains an example and hope for all young actors and companies, with no other means to survive as their talent and their desire to theatre. They had a model, they earn a guardian angel...