"Catherine Dasté is not dead!": interview with Catherine Dasté

Abstract

She watched Etienne Decroux present the first results of his research in her home sitting on the lap
of her father, Jean Dasté. She grew up watching
her mother, Marie-Hélène Dasté, rehearse and perform alongside figures like Jean-Louis Barrault. She
was the wife of musician Graeme Allwright. She is
the granddaughter of Jacques Copeau. As a theatre director, she was one of those responsible for a
revolution in the ways of doing and thinking about
theatre for children and adolescents in France. In
this interview, Catherine Dasté talks about her theatrical career and her family history, which is itself
intertwined with the history of French theatre. The
interview was conducted in 2016 as part of my doctoral research at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, thesis entitled L’enfant comme modèle dans
la pédagogie théâtrale. Dans les approches de Jacques Copeau, Jacques Lecoq et Philippe Gaulier