Apart from this booming laugh that serves as a flagship, we know too little about this epicurean hardliner. What Fruitier destined Edgar, younger son of a French Protestant family settled in Ville-Emard, to become the man of theater and cheap aion kinah we know today? Nothing but an early passion for reading, which, at the age of 12 years, pushed to cut corners in his mother paid for his lunch at school to better feast of books and musical scores.
A mother who alienated their garlic-piano lessons, for fear that his consuming passion not distract them from their studies. Total Self-taught, young Edgar has taught himself to read notes and to decrypt the classics. Convinced he missed his calling, he turned early to the theater. On the importance of listening to music in his life relates that Fruitier 12 years he was drinking more than 12 hours of music per day, a sport which he devotes more than eight hours … Excessive, you say?
The confidences Fruitier reveal much about this dual obsession, music and theater, which occupies all the space of an otherwise ascetic existence. “To me, loneliness is one of the most extraordinary things that may exist.” Avowed Besides his passion for two cats, the stained Edgar leading a quiet life without her soulmate in Brossard refuge for 40 years. “I never thought that love life was in itself very important. So neither man nor woman. My only two passions are music and my theatrical career, “says he.
Interpreter Molière and Chekhov, Werewolf Pirate Maboule of our childhood and voice of Mr. Burns in The Simpsons, Edgar Fruitier is - it’s the least we can say - a scatterbrain multiforme.
Sort of Don Quixote of modern times, it shares with the character of Cervantes draws from the same tall, thin, a prolific verve, the same delusional optimism and a romantic vision of life. In its final pages, the talkative Edgar gratifies us with his music recommendations.