Entered in the TNP in 1956, Sonia Debeauvais was in charge of the conquest of the public, inter alia, by means of groupings and associations.

In the Festival d’Avignon as in Paris, she roamed districts and became then the first to implement this type of relation with the public, contributing to one of the major innovations of Jean Vilar and popular theatre.

Founding member of the Association Jean Vilar evoke her experience it is put her “in the center of of the looks and thoughts of her public, she has never received them, but often gave them to a large number of her friends actors !“ – Jacques Tephany.

Avec les témoignages de ses amis :
Denise Benabenq, ex-person in charge of the development of the public in several big cultural institutions, Jacques Nerson,  theater critic in the Masque et la Plume, Jean-François Perrier, actor, Yan Tassin, petit-fils de Sonia, actor, Jacques Téphany, the former director of the Association Jean Vilar / Maison Jean Vilar, Philippa Welhe, emeritus professor of Études Théâtrales à l’Université Purchase (USA).

Conception and coordination : Claude Vauclare