Princesse de pierre et Rouge dents

Princesse de pierre and Rouge dents are two plays by Pauline Peyrade from the collection Portrait d'une sirène, which borrows from the world of fairy tales to depict female characters traversed by forces even crueler than those of their fairy-tale "big sisters".

In Princesse de Pierre, Eloïse is prey to the hostility of her classmates; in an inner monologue addressed to others as much as to herself, "Eloïse la Sans-Amis" struggles against aggression and sketches out the mechanisms at work in this all-against-one relationship.

In Rouge dents, Gwladys is confronted by an inner voice dictating the rules of fashion and the image she must project to inspire envy and admiration. Between submission and rebellion, Gwladys seeks her place in a world that seems governed only by the gaze of others.

Mixing theater and dance, Mohand Azzoug creates a bridge between these two texts and exposes what remains when everything crushes the individual. Through what these two female figures go through, these texts give shape to a resistance where a beat, a body, a breath persists.