Story#1 - Thierry
"Stories of Hope" starts from the culture, one of the sectors most impacted during COVID: theatres, music, museums, arts, in general, are precious treasures, and we have been deprived for many months.
Thierry Lopez is an actor based in Nice, South of France.
Thierry Lopez, Nice
We met in front of the ‘Theatre National de Nice’, a symbolic place for an artist. I could immediately feel how much Thierry missed the theatre, the stage, the public.
“Two years without public. The stage, the show, the spectators: all this is a need for an actor.
It is a life which is missing”.
Thierry
He mentioned that several actors found a different jobs, even if a temporary occupation; others decided to work on long term projects, learning new parts or writing new ‘peaces’; some performed on YouTube, but it is not the same.
“You can’t replace the emotion and the energy of the public in front of you”.
One of his concerns was the difficulty of planning the following months and the uncertainties of the seasons.
Nevertheless, he carried a strong motivation, the desire to get back on stage, the willingness to return to auditions and find new artistic ways. His motivation was an example for me, reminding how much is important to focus on what is important to us.
“When theatre will open again, everything will explode, it will be like a big party. People need to laugh, need emotion and we will be ready.”
Good luck Thierry! Thank you for your energy and motivation: I imagine you now performing on a stage, giving emotions to many spectators.
STORIES of HOPE. Simple stories of ordinary people that carry a message of hope, a fragment of future. I have been meeting incredible people, that transmit energy, passion, engagement. I talk to them and try to find their message of hope.
