Sans Ulysse

After questioning the figure of the groupie in Oh Johnny, Liora Jaccottet has turned her attention to another kind of obsession: obsession with love. From the wait of modern-day Penelopes on the lookout for a Ulysses who won't come, comes a deeply moving show about love, hope and commitment.

At her mother's death, Liora Jaccottet discovers an unfinished text from her. "Je m'absente un instant, un instant seulement" is the only sentence to be salvaged from an illegible manuscript of which only the title remains: Sans Ulysse. Like a challenge. An invitation. It was on stage that this work, still in the draft stage, was born. Somewhere between fiction and reality, the young director invites the performers to reconstruct the story not of the man who left, but of the woman who stayed, his mother. She whose waiting has become an activity in itself, a contemporary Penelope. Drawing on this intimate account, rediscovered archives and the testimonies of women who experienced the same wait, she weaves a delicate web. Like an inverted Odyssey, Liora Jaccottet mischievously questions love bereavement - and bereavement in general - through this new kind of epic. Is it possible to give this love story the ending it never had?