Et jamais nous ne serons séparés

What remains when the absence of a loved one defies time, memory and death? Et jamais nous ne serons séparés tells the story of this lack through a plot as simple as it is strange. A woman, Elle, waits for the man she loves, Lui. He comes. She rejoices to find him, then, the next moment, doesn't see him anymore. Yet he's there. He returns later, accompanied by a young girl. This time, it's Elle who seems to fade away... Are these people really there? Why do they sometimes seem to disappear in the eyes of others? Without ever offering an explanation, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse deploys a hypnotic, unsettlingly musical style, blurring the boundaries between presence and absence. Through silences, repetitions and haunting motifs, he explores the vacillating interiority of beings, the fragile construction of reality and the elusive perception of the present. First performed in 1994, this second theatrical work by the 2023 Nobel Prize winner reveals a singular voice vibrating with complex emotion, where existential comedy rubs shoulders with the gentle strangeness of the absurd. In this suspended space, directors Daniel Jeanneteau and Mammar Benranou prolong the enigma, carried by three exceptional actors.