Jean ANOUILH. L.A.S., Praz-de-Fort (Switzerland) [1973, to Frans Durif]; 2pages in-fol. About his play L'Orchestre, which he had authorized to be performed at the café-théâtre Le Fanal, directed by Andreas Voutsinas.... "I was there once and I confess to having laughed, excessively, despite the errors and simplicities of the staging: being nose-to-nose with the musicians in this little cellar made everything pass by"... He criticizes the director as a fashionable "guru", while despising the staging Anouilh had worked out with Pietri: "I also remembered our staging and the trouble we had taken to ensure that the scenes with two people were not overheard by the others... and the verisimilitude of Barbulée, who was the character. I don't like television, the dramas are lame, you don't perform a play in front of machines [...] You don't perform for people who are eating their soup, scratching their ears or slapping their children, in slippers and who can turn the knob. It's degrading. Vive le théâtre où l'on vient, ensemble"...