 He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty after seeing the film actress María Casares starring in a production of "Medea" ("Médée") directed by Jorge Lavelli.Soon after, in 1969, he was inspired and wrote his first play, "Les Amertumes" ("Bitternesses"), a dramatization of Maksim Gorky's 1914 memoir, "My Childhood".The play premiered in 1970 at the St. Nicholas Church in Strasbourg.