Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
It was in 1987, at the age of 19, that Marcial Di Fonzo Bo left Argentina to settle in France and "open up to freedom." Never having thought of doing anything other than theatre, he became an assistant, a lighting technician, property man and dresser before joining the École du Théâtre national de Bretagne in Rennes, to create in 1994 with his classmates, among whom Élise Vigier, the Théâtre des Lucioles: an actors' collective more than a company, that permits each of its members to create personal projects, while continuing to work outside the group. Marcial Di Fonzo Bo has worked as an actor in the cinema, as well as in the theatre under the direction of Claude Régy, Matthias Langhoff, Rodrigo García, Olivier Py, Jean-Baptiste Sastre, Luc Bondy, Christophe Honoré and Élise Vigier. It was with the latter that he made his début as a director, in Barcelona in 1998. Together, they turned towards Copi, using his texts to propose an amusing montage: Copi, un portrait. Then La Tour de la défense, Les poulets n'ont pas de chaises and Loretta Strong would follow. This companionship would end with Le Frigo in 2006, before they turned their loyalty to another Argentine author: Rafael Spregelburd. Élise Vigier and Marcial Di Fonzo Bo seized on his Heptalogie to successively stage La Connerie, La Panique (produced with Pierre Maillet and students from the École des Teinturiers in Lausanne), La Paranoïa and now L'Entêtement. In all these stagings, they forcefully proclaim the essential place of the actor on stage, the actor committed to defending authors who know how to subvert the forms of writing and performance. At the Festival d'Avignon, Élise Vigier and Marcial Di Fonzo Bo presented La Tour de la défense, Les poulets n'ont pas de chaises and Loretta Strong in 2006. Marcial Di Fonzo Bo also appeared as an actor on several occasions with Matthias Langhoff, Rodrigo García and Christophe Honoré.
JFP, May, 2011.