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Fissure de soeur Sabine Revillet | | sweet little girl |
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On the one hand, Delphine bombards her mother with questions about life, childhood and what it will be like to be a woman. Her mother half-listens to her and sometimes explodes. When she has reached the end of her tether, her mother turns violent, suffering fits of anger from which Delphine does her best to defend herself. On the other hand, there is Karine, Delphine’s bosom buddy, a melancholic loner who utters weird, mysterious monologues about Jeanne, the Hurricane Woman. Delphine and Karine might be one and the same person. So might Delphine’s mother and the hurricane. Who knows? This is a simple fable about the unease and questions that arise before puberty, as well as the darker aspects of a family that has shut itself off from the outside. |
| Why the Reading Committee chose the Play: This text approaches the topic of violence against children in a reserved and offbeat manner without ever preaching. The author has her own very personal style, which involves long reels of words without any punctuation that closely follow the spoken word and display an incredibly intense use of language and a scathing sense of humour. The aggression and abuse take shape in the extremely rough style of writing and the headlong pace of the play. The text is trashy, knows no taboos and packs a real punch!
Author’s comments: “This is the story of a little girl called Delphine. She splits herself in half to survive and to escape her mother’s beatings. So then there are Delphine and Karine. Karine is her invented sister, her shadow, the little exile girl, the little ghost of a girl. Delphine dreams of being loved, of being elsewhere. That way she thinks she can escape from her misfortune. Fissure de soeur is a play for children. It tackles the topic of abuse from a poetic perspective – using poetry to escape from reality and to save oneself.
I like plays that are off-beat, lyrical, disturbing, when accidents happen on stage, clashes, ruins, the eerie, the distorted, when things go wrong and get out of hand, when things are inefficient and out of place.”
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| Characters : 1 women - 2 men - 2 little girls Théâtrales - www.editionstheatrales.fr |
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