Le Pays lointain

Le Pays lointain, the masterful and ultimate play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, who died in '95, has left its mark on contemporary dramaturgy through its form and writing.
A universal story, our life, our death, and in the middle our life with the natural family, and the one we build for ourselves, the family of the heart.

Louis, the man who's about to die returns to his town to see his family, left behind long ago, to say that it's almost over, that he's going to die and leave without saying so. The others, those still alive and those already dead, will talk a lot around him. 11 actors, give flesh to this living novel.

By thwarting the game of representation, plot and dialogue, Lagarce invents a dramatic writing style marked by novelistic narrative, the pain of saying, time filtered through the yardstick of memory. Coming to terms with the truth, the family - all families - friendship and love, again and again, run through this dazzling work marked by the seal of intimacy that refers back to the lives of each and every one of us, readers and spectators alike.