Description
Four women take the floor: a user, a reception center director, a sentence enforcement judge and an academic.
They speak to us of intimacy: of thwarted loves, of hindered existences, of those voids that substances sometimes come to fill. Their stories interweave and respond to each other, gradually sketching the same institutional landscape through their different points of view. By questioning the ineffectiveness of repression alone, Hautes perchées sketches out the possibility of a more attentive, more human gaze. The play offers these voices, too often marginalized, a space to express themselves fully, in the writing of a true fiction.
Maurin Ollès proposes a choral fiction in which theater and live music mingle to explore a burning question: what does our society's view of drug users have to say? Drawing on the stories of women, Hautes perchées questions the way in which our institutions of health, justice and research supervise, control and support drug users. Far from being moralistic, this lively, rhythmic and joyful show reveals the complexity of a subject often silenced or stigmatized.
With Simon Avérous, Clara Bonnet, Émilie Incerti Formentini, Mathilde-Édith Mennetrier, Bedis Tir, Arnold Zeilig, Mélissa Zehner.
