A percussionist, Mathieu Bauer is director of the interdisciplinary collective “Sentimental Bourreau” since 1990. Having a passion for music and cinema, he injects in his plays live rock music, short movie sequences or images. In 2007 he presented with success at the Avignon Festival Tendre jeudi / Sweet Thursday based on the short novel by John Steinbeck, then created two shows for the Subsistances in Lyon (in 2009 and February 2011 respectively) : Tristan et… / Tristan and… a free stage adaptation of Wagner opera by Lancelot Hamelin ; and Please kill me inspired by the book of Legs McNeil et Gillian McCain.