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Mathilde Véronique Olmi | | | | One evening Mathilde, a forty-year-old writer, comes home after being away for three months. The flat is full of boxes. While his wife was gone, Pierre was putting things away and sorting them out, because everything was disorderly and confused inside him. Mathilde has come home from prison. She was serving a sentence for corruption of a minor - an affair with a young boy she met at a writing workshop, the kind of affair that takes on the importance given to it by other people: the civil law of a moralistic society and the pain felt by a cheated husband.
What is left of this taboo relationship? Where does a writer really live? In what reality? What nourishes love in a couple? What nourishes writing? To whom and to what do we belong?
That night will involve a confrontation between Mathilde and Pierre. The questions have been asked… solitude and suffering are also a reflection of love.
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| "The tension in this play is that of desire - between a man and woman who have reached a mature age, who have already spent a number of years together and love one another. Mathilde doesn't criticise the woman who was caught up in the desire of a young fourteen-year-old and paid for it by doing three months in prison, nor does she show the confrontation between a couple about to break up. Rather, she paints a portrait of people who are searching and demanding the most from life. Véronique Olmi is an expert at putting desire at the heart of every relationship."
Claire David, publisher at Actes Sud-Papiers
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| Opened at the Benevento Festival (Italy), staged by Marco Carniti in September 2000.
Italian translation by Gioia Costa.
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| Characters : 1 women - 1 men - Éditions Actes Sud-Papiers. - www.actes-sud.fr |
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