“A woman. Slim figure. Tights. Scarf around her head, Hitchcockian figure.”
“Don’t cry. I have a headache. No tears. I’ll go by myself and leave you here. I’ll hang a paper with our address on the zipper of your anorak. Anyone will take you home straight away. Is that what you want? Then what do you want? I’m staying here. I’m not going home. I’m going to Greenland. You believe me or not (…)”.
A mother talks to her daughter. They have just left the family home to go to Greenland. This monologue resembles a farewell letter, from a mother who would leave recommendations to her daughter not to be trapped by society, men, motherhood, by life… Confidence of the experience of a woman, a mother, the difficulty of being a woman and of the transmission from mother to daughter. A text that questions abandonment, the desire to find oneself, even to the point of considering letting go of everything…
The challenge of this costume was to be able to embody this Hitchcockian woman’s figure, cold, drawn out, who as the play progresses, unravels from her role as a housewife, from her overly stuffy affairs, to abandon everything and be reborn.
By Pauline Sale staging Compagnie Premières Fontes. Acting Liza Blanchard dramaturgy Guillaume Poix sound Guillaume Vesin lighting Alix Veillon scenography Cassandre Boy and Bertrand Nodet costume Emilie Gautier.
