Derniers remords avant l'oubli

Derniers remords avant l'oubli, recounts a simple dramatic situation: friends reunite after a long absence to sort out the house they'd bought together a few years earlier. This is the starting point, a pretext for settling scores, misunderstandings, nostalgic flashbacks and coming to terms with the present. How each negotiated the difficult transition from the illusions of youth to the realities and compromises of adulthood.

It's these tug-of-wars, these disappointments, these renunciations that interest Jean-Luc Lagarce. He tracks down every word, every breath, that which might betray these movements of the soul and heart. That's what I want to bring to life on a theater stage, this mixture of greatness and smallness that animates us, that can make us monstrous or sublime, ridiculous or endearing.

This text by Jean-Luc Lagarce imposes rigor and simplicity, for a work as close as possible to the actors and their inner movements, as close as possible to confrontations and situations that are often funny or incongruous, a work in the image of his writing, all detail and finesse.

He wrote: To show on the stage the exact force that sometimes seizes us, that, exactly that, men and women as they are, the beauty and horror of their exchanges and the melancholy that immediately takes hold of them when this beauty and horror are lost, flee and seek to destroy themselves, frightened