Jacques Osinski is one of those elegant, sensitive directors whose artistic action is based on a principle of theatrical ethics, respect for one’s elders. He is one of those who confirms the aesthetics simply, without ostentation, with the determination that characterises his tenacity and his taste for things well done. He takes on the real elements of the stage, the spaces, the running time, the images, the characters, but also seeks out in the text that which is not easily visible and which fascinates him: the unreal, the dream-like. He looks for the intimate, the strange, preferring dysfunction to logic – Shakespeare is perfect for him, the magician of untold marvels, master of fantasy, for whom nothing can stand in the way of desire. Le Conte d’hiver (The Winter’s Tale) is a fairy tale which is read backwards. At the dawn of life, when all is extinguished and all begins again, in the realm of fairies and joy, when the child takes over for the adult, and death fades in the face of the rebirth nature distills for us. Come with us – we will dream with Shakespeare, and the trip will be worth it, since it will resemble nothing you have ever experienced. Jacques Osinski makes the impossible possible. This is the miracle of theatre!
