Arlette

Lecture directed by Arnaud Frémont - Cie Les bienveillantes

In myths, you have heroes who are victims of metamorphoses, who end up delivered, returned to themselves, finding themselves even more human, freer and enlarged than before, but who you were back then, Dad, never came back. There was so much shame and so much shame of being ashamed and so much LACK.

If Arlette is real, it's all the reality around her that leaks, oozes, squeaks, slides and shifts. Arlette is afraid of arriving late to say a final goodbye to her dying father, but she runs into her sister who doesn't know what to wear to their father's remarriage...