In the cemetery of Brancion-en-Châlon, the warden Violette Toussaint, former gatekeeper, watches over the memory of the missing.
“When somebody's gone, he's gone.
Except in the minds of those who remain.
Every day, she changes the water in the flowers, wipes the funeral medallions with a rag.
With the dead, Violette Toussaint has learned to put life into perspective.
Her happiness lies in simple things like
"talking to the wind, flowers and ladybugs
".
A peaceful daily life on the surface, until a certain Julien Seul, commissioner in mourning after the death of his mother, came to unearth buried cracks.
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Tied up like a thriller,
Changing the Water of Flowers
, Valérie Perrin's bestseller, was a resounding success when it was released in 2018. Translated into 33 languages and sold nearly a million copies in France, it is natural that he came to find refuge on the stage of the Lepic Theater.
The writer trusted her daughter-in-law, Salomé Lelouch, daughter of Claude Lelouch, to take over the staging.
Accompanied by Mikaël Chirinian, who also lends his face to the character of Philippe Toussaint, the latter offers a more refined version of the novel, funny and moving, where each word hits against hearts.
Resilience and hope
Still born under X in the Ardennes, resuscitated by the heat of a radiator, Violette Toussaint is one of those "who left
before they even arrived
". A first leap into the world of the living which foreshadowed a life of pitfalls. Then there was her daughter Léonine, her couple as "
flat as Tutankhamun's encephalogram
", and the "
disturbing disappearance
" of the husband, Philippe Toussaint. Since then, the young woman finds her pleasure in the song of Charles Trenet, a tear of port in hand. But who is Violette Toussaint? Where is her husband? Why has she made loneliness her path of life? Julien Seul, the curator at first curious then in love, unties the thread for the spectators.
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A question-answer game then points as the plot progresses.
In a scrap metal setting, dressed with two shelves like tombstones and a flowerpot, Violette Toussaint invokes light.
Magnificently embodied by the actress Caroline Rochefort, the heroine is accompanied by two men, Julien Seul (Morgan Perez) and Philippe Toussaint (Mikaël Chirinian), who give her the answer with accuracy in a bouquet of exhilarating emotion.
Violette Toussaint had her share of miseries.
And yet, it is illustrated as a fine example of resilience and humanity.
Throughout the piece, the poetry of the text fills the air with a delicious scent of summer.
The one that evokes memories, the sea, the one we see dancing in Charles Trenet's song, which suddenly gives new impulses of hope and optimism.
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