Elles disent... l'Odyssée

Don't promise. Don't promise you'll be back soon' very soon!... Don't say I won't have time to see you gone. Don't say anything! Above all, don't ask me to wait for you' to look often at the sea on the other side of the terraces.
Did I tell you I was afraid?

In Lagarce's play, Homer's twenty-four songs become eighteen scenes that break free from the original text to become original gesture and personal writing. The son, Telemachus, is on his way out. A chorus of female characters - Calypso' Circe' Nausicaa and Penelope' the mother - await the return of a man' Ulysses' after a long absence. In Elles disent... l'Odyssée, we find the major themes of Lagarci's work: departure' waiting' return...