Between a sand-colored wooden table and a high chair, Brigitte Catillon, alone on stage at the Théâtre de Poche, interprets
Marie-Madeleine
, that of Marguerite Yourcenar, a short story written when she was 33 years old, the age of Christ.
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It is a spectacle without artifice where the only effects are the words which flow like the Jordan.
The Mary Magdalene of Yourcenar is a compound of three evangelical figures: Mary of Bethany, Mary of Magdala and the anonymous sinner who sprinkled perfume on the feet of the Messiah and wiped it with her hair.
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It is the night of his wedding with John, but he sees himself preferring Jesus.
He shies away from the desires of the flesh to follow the path of the spirit.
Brigitte Catillon, headscarf, antique face, begins her story.
Hypnotized, we will never leave him:
“My name is Marie;
I am called Marie-Madeleine, it is the name of my village: it is the small country where my mother had fields, where my father had vines.
I am from Magdalena.
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