LES PETITES SŒURS N’ONT PAS LE DROIT DE SOUFFRIR

In the 1970s, three sisters live in isolation in a forest at the foot of a limestone plateau. Above, an intensive livestock farm dominates the landscape; below, a red river becomes the scene of strange deaths. Faced with the denial that surrounds them, they embark on a struggle for the truth. This ecological fable questions the hierarchies of existence and explores human relationships in the face of the immeasurable.

Inspired by the Breton green algae scandal, the play transposes the consequences of water pollution linked to intensive livestock farming into a fictional landscape, while questioning political denial in the face of the suffering of living beings. This ecological fable examines the hierarchies of existence and explores our human relationships in the face of the immeasurable. While local authorities look the other way, the sisters find themselves unwittingly drawn into a struggle for the truth. Alongside a veterinarian and the mayor’s daughter, they forge unexpected bonds in a quest for empathy and understanding. Mirroring our contemporary realities, two parallel storylines unfold. On the one hand, the struggle: the five female characters’ discovery of the danger posed by the existing systems. On the other hand, the suffocating denial that grows ever stronger—until civil disobedience becomes necessary. Each woman bears witness, from her own perspective, to forms of submission and possible forms of resistance. As they forge connections, each seeks to free herself from the system that