La Vie invisible

Thierry has been blind for almost forty years. An amateur actor, he reconstructs the memory of a show that upset him, but for which he remembers neither the title nor the names of the characters. A theatrical experiment in perception, memory and self-construction.

To write this play, which questions the place of images in our perception of reality, Lorraine de Sagazan and author Guillaume Poix collected testimonies from blind and partially-sighted people, with the aim of giving an insight into their relationship with memory and fiction. Starting out as an investigation into perception, La Vie invisible turns into a meditation on the notion of point of view, underpinned by the experience of a blind person