LUMIÈRES, LUMIÈRES, LUMIÈRES

It is from Virginia Woolf's novel "Towards the Lighthouse" that Quebec author Evelyne de la Chenelière extracts the material for her play, which she devotes to two of the female characters: Mrs. Ramsay, a wife and mother with conventional aspirations, and Lily Briscoe, a painter who asserts her independence within early 20th-century British society.

In the home of the Ramsay couple, parents of eight children including little James who has been waiting for days to go and see the lighthouse, weather permitting, she weaves a dialogue between the two women, following the flow of their intimate thoughts. Director Florent Siaud, who regularly collaborates with Evelyne de la Chenelière, praises the quality of the writing, "where political and poetic motifs circulate, evolve, contradict and illuminate each other in a formal inventiveness that recounts the elusive nature of reality".
In both theater and opera, in Quebec and Europe, Florent Siaud, director of the company Les songes turbulents, creates shows of plastic beauty and dramaturgical clarity that reveal the profound meaning of the works he chooses. Here, he offers two of the Troupe's actresses a magnificent score, an intimate, romantic quest where dreaminess is tinged with caustic humor. In a space between fantasy and reality, a place of memory or a fleeting present, he gives shape to Mrs. Ramsay and Lily. They exchange