In this chapter, I want to explore the relationship between one of contemporary France's most prominent theatrical figures, Georges Lavaudant, and one of its most important recent philosophers, Gilles Deleuze. While Deleuze only came to the attention of British and North American scholars during the last ten years of his life (that is, from the mid-1980s), his ideas were unsurprisingly taken up earlier and more widely in his native France. For instance, What is Philosophy?, his last collaborative work with Félix Guattari published in 1991, became a French bestseller. Likewise, it could be suggested that the title given to a recent Le Monde interview with Lavaudant — "Mettre un peu de mineur dans le majeur" — indicates the extent to which a Deleuzian vocabulary of the "major and minor" has permeated French popular culture (Lavaudant, Darge and Salino, 2006: 4). However, it also adduces Lavaudant's specifically Deleuzian, as well as broadly philosophical, sympathies. As far back as 1977, Lavaudant had argued that the French theatre of his time was not "philosophical enough" and supported Antoine Vitez's desire to "begin the circulation of thought" in and as theatre (Lavaudant in Champagne, 1984: 87). Equally, in a 1994 interview, Lavaudant proposes a concept of theatre as a kind of live, communal event of philosophizing by describing it as "one of the few spaces where we can still think in the presence of, and alongside, others' (ibid.: 43).