Yves Gasc ・ Comédie-Française

After receiving his training at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris) in the classes of Jean Yonnel and Georges Le Roy, Yves Gasc joined the Comédie-Française in 1978 and became a sociétaire in 1982. Subsequent to his leaving the Troupe in December 1997, he was appointed as a sociétaire honoraire in January 1998.
From 1953 to 1963, he enrolled in the Théâtre National Populaire (T.N.P) in Villeurbanne, where he got the chance to play de Musset, Shakespeare, Büchner, Beaumarchais, Brecht, Molière and Pirandello. Jean Vilar put him in charge of the Théâtre national de Chaillot’s poetic and literature mornings and evenings at the Festival of Avignon and on tour. Furthermore, he put on stage plays by Corneille, Labiche, Valéry, Hugo, Pinget, and very often collaborated with Laurent Terzieff.
Between 1973 and 1977, he enrolled in the Renaud-Barrault Company, where he got the chance to play Claudel, Higgins’ Harold and Maud, Villiers-de-l'Isle-Adam, Duras. 
At the Comédie-Française, he felt equally at home playing from both the classic and contemporary repertoire, notably in Samuel Beckett’sHappy Days, in Molière’s Don Juan, in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, in Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot, in Euripides’s Medea, and in Hugo’s Mary Tudor. And the list goes on to include Molière’s The School For Wives, and Marivaux’s The Second Surprise of Love, Genet’s The Balcony, Molière’s The Bourgeois Gentleman. He also performed in Bernanos’ Dialogues of the Carmelites, in Svevo’s A Husband, in Sophocles’ Antigone, in Camus’ Caligula, in Balzac’s Le Faiseur, in Feydeau’s Occupe-toi d'Amélie, in Labiche’s Moi, in Ionesco’s Jack, or The Submission, in Molière’s Les Femmes savantes, in Grumberg’s Amorphe d'Ottenburg, in Corneille’s Cinna, in Gombrowicz’s The Marriage and in Magnin’s Soap Opera.
At the Comédie-Française, he staged Andrée Chedid’s Le Montreur, Robert Pinget’s Paralchimie, Eduardo Manet’s Le jour où Mary Shelley rencontra Charlotte Brontë, Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love, Jules Renard’s Le Pain de ménage and Le Plaisir de rompre, Alain-René Lesage's Turcaret, David Mamet’s The Shawl, Jean-Claude Brisville's L'Entretien de M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune and Le Fauteuil à bascule.  
In the movies, he played under the direction of Marguerite Duras, Pierre Lary, Bertrand Blier, Alain Corneau and on television, he worked with Marcel Bluwal, Michel Favart, Claude Santelli and Josée Dayan.

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At the Comédie-Française

2016-2017

2015-2016

2014-2015

2013-2014

2012-2013

2011-2012

2010-2011

2009-2010

2005-2006

2001-2002

2000-2001

1999-2000

1998-1999

1997-1998

1996-1997

1995-1996

1994-1995

1993-1994

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1991-1992

1990-1991

1989-1990

1988-1989

1987-1988

1985-1986

1984-1985

1983-1984

1982-1983

1981-1982

1979-1980

1978-1979

1977-1978

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