bitter love
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At the back of a crematorium Édouard takes refuge during a ceremony.
He has just lost the love of his life: Marie, Marie-Jo, Marie-Joséphine his companion of thirty years, the mother of his two children.
With her, he had built his life, his vintage car rental business, learned love, learned to live and to survive.
What to do with this grief?
Collapse, plunge into painful sadness?
To praise the one who accompanied him during all these years?
Or, digging up the unmentionable buried secrets… until you end up with a twist worthy of the greatest Greek tragedies?
Édouard (played by Jean-Pierre Bouvier) recounts the memories of his life with his great love Marie-Jo.
Bruno Perroud
Between each cigarette (and there are many of them), the bereaved recounts their incandescent loves, reduces all their future plans to ashes and finally lights the flame of revelation.
For about an hour Jean-Pierre Bouvier (prize for male interpretation at the Off 2021 in Avignon for this piece) delivers a performance alone on stage completely embodied and shows a whole range of the personality of a character torn between the ecstasy of to have known a great love and the sadness of having lost it.
"Bitter Love" until March 29, at the Comédie Bastille, 5 rue Nicolas Appert (Paris 11th).
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In that time love
Z has recently become a grandfather and decides to record the traumatic story of his deportation for his descendants. What way to tell the holocaust when everything has already been said? How not to fall into the survivor's litany? Z forces himself to deliver his experience as a man but also to tell the story of one of his traveling companions. Everything takes place in 7 days, quite a symbol. As the story unfolds, we discover that it is actually a story of transmission, of what we want to leave to those who matter, of how we fight until the last moment to keep the rest alive. of childhood of our offspring even when the outcome is near. Each trip back on the train that took him to Auschwitz is terrible, but the present is just as terrible.
Z tells the traumatic story of his deportation.
Yohann Yergec
Neat sets and economical staging, David Brécourt tells the unthinkable, plays several characters in turn and without concession, from the young man to the old man and travels through time.
He finally recounts what a father's love for his son was like at that time in a very universal parable.
A sacred piece "Best show" of the Off d'Avignon 2021 festival, to see very quickly before the end of the month.
“In this time of love” until January 29, at the Théâtre du Gymnase, 38 bd Bonne Nouvelle (Paris 10th).
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