Dissection d'une chute de neige

Royal Court of Stockholm, 1631... To accede to the throne, Queen Christine of Sweden, "King's Daughter", must marry her designated suitor. She objects. Obstinately. Lively and erudite, she refuses to bow to the demands of power and the gender norms imposed by society. Around her gravitate a philosopher, a ghostly king, a distant mother, a lover, a beau. Her presence acts like a magnet, attracting all the other protagonists, who succeed one another in virtuoso face-offs in which all the stakes of the play are laid out and audible. The second play by Swedish author Sara Stridsberg, directed by Christophe Rauck, Dissection of a Snowfall questions the attributes of power. Enclosed in a large transparent box, at once a cage and a refuge, Christine collides with the glass walls like a trapped butterfly. A sultry, feminist and poetic figure, she is torn between passion and reason, despotic impulses and the desire for freedom. A modern heroine, she struggles to hold on to the reins of her destiny.