(Paris) The performances in Paris of a show by the actor Édouard Baer, questioned by six women who accuse him of “harassment and sexual assault” in Mediapart, have been “cancelled”, indicates the theater in an email to spectators who had reserved.
“The Théâtre Antoine regrets to announce the cancellation of the performances of the show My application » planned for June and July, writes the Antoine theater, in this email dated Wednesday and consulted by AFP.
This message was sent a week after the publication of a joint investigation by the investigative site Mediapart and the feminist media Cheek. Anonymously, six women accuse the actor of “harassment and sexual assault”, while the world of French cinema has been shaken in recent months by a wave of testimonies about sexual violence.
The play, which was to be performed on around fifteen dates in June and July, was no longer offered on Thursday on the theater’s website.
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The show poster My application which was presented to Antoine Theater in Paris before being canceled.
Contacted by AFP, the Antoine theater declined to comment. It offers spectators a credit or a ticket for another show.
In the joint investigation by Mediapart and Cheek, the six women describe acts of “harassment and sexual assault”, over a period “spanning from 2013 to 2021 […] mainly in professional contexts”, namely in his Paris office, around theatrical performances or on the sidelines of broadcasts on Radio Nova and France Inter radio stations, in Paris.
None of these six women, aged around twenty at the time of the events, filed a complaint, specify the two media outlets.
“I do not recognize myself in the words or gestures attributed to me, but I can only express my regret that my behavior made these women uncomfortable or hurt. I didn’t have the intelligence to perceive it. I am deeply sorry. I never intentionally tried to hurt them. I apologize to them,” the actor said in a written statement to both media outlets.