Description
Last season, Louise Chevillotte played Simone de Beauvoir in Thérèse et Isabelle. This is her first time on stage.
Inspired by Claudie Hunzinger's novel of the same name and her son Robin's documentary film, the story brings to life the passionate correspondence between Emma and Marcelle, two young girls of the early 20th century. On stage, four actresses embody these emancipated, daring and free young women, revealing an unsuspected modernity at the heart of 1920s France.
Three years after meeting Emma, Marcelle catches tuberculosis and is placed in a sanatorium. It was there that she met three other girls. Between them, they form the "gang of blood-spitters", fevered by tuberculosis and love. Through these intersecting voices, we follow the incandescent journey of these teenagers who, when death approaches, choose to love and live without waiting - because desire, writes Claudie Hunzinger, is "even more contagious than disease".
Immersing herself in this extraordinary material, the director brings to life the dazzling language of Marcelle's letters, the dizziness of bodies and desire, but also the confinement of the sanatorium and the tuberculosis that makes death loom. These four female students of the early 20th century are a world away from the docile, self-effacing images our era assigns to those who came before us.
With Élodie Gandy, Juliette Gharbi, Lucie Grunstein, Mathilde-Édith Mennetrier.
