«Frankenstein revisited in The Monster Factory»

Le Regard Libre N° 36 - Jonas Follonier

Jean-François Peyret, an important French theater director of recent decades, has long been keen to offer theater on the theme of man's technical destiny. After staging Le Traité des formes and Ex vivo/In vitro with biologist Alain Prochiantz, he staged a re-adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein at Lausanne's Théâtre de Vidy last February. Interview.

Le Regard Libre: In your own words, you «expose theater to science.» Where did this artistic identity come from?

Jean-François Peyret: I think several threads have come together over the years. First, there’s a sensitivity to the questions raised by science and technology in our time—for better or for worse. I was born at the same time as Hiroshima: we are