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Le Mardi à Monoprix Emmanuel Darley | | photo : JJ Kraemer |
| | | Marie-Pierre has been looking after her father every Tuesday for a while now. She spends the day with him, does his cleaning and ironing. They chat - about this and that. About today and yesterday. About before. About Chantal, her mother, who is no longer alive. About Jean-Pierre too. They chat and then they go out - on their usual walk. Straight down the street, past the town hall and down the path along the canal.
But above all on Tuesdays Marie-Pierre and her father go to the Monoprix supermarket to get what they need for the week. Enough to keep her father going until the following Tuesday. The two of them walk up and down the aisles; Marie-Pierre carries the groceries in a plastic Monoprix basket. They have their little rituals. Then they wait in line at the cash register. The people here know them. They stare at them. Especially at Marie-Pierre, who is beautiful. And tall. They only have eyes for her. All eyes are turned on her as she shops with her father on Tuesday mornings at Monoprix.
Before - but it was a while ago - Marie-Pierre’s name was Jean-Pierre.
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| Emotional Chaos
“Marie-Pierre cleans the house and plays the ‘domestic goddess’ for her virile father who can’t quite face the obvious. Marie-Pierre shops at a Monoprix supermarket, at a safe distance from her father, caught between pleasure and pain. Everyone - including the customers and cashiers in the store - stares at her. She’s independent when in town, but suffers from her father’s refusal to acknowledge “her.” How to express the happiness she feels when she’s with him? Darley’s succinct and finely crafted writing is a penetrating expression of Marie-Pierre’s moods as she rambles loosely down a luminous path of feelings and thoughts.[…] A vibrant denunciation of the refusal to accept those who are different and of macho behavior in general.”
Véronique Hotte, La Passerelle, October 2010
“As a child Jean-Pierre liked washing dishes and putting them away. He already felt ‘like a girl inside.’ As an adult he wears skirts and heels and calls himself Marie-Pierre, which his father has never accepted. Nonetheless, every Tuesday his daughter visits him ‘as is,’ cleans his house, does his laundry and goes with him to the supermarket. He persists - ‘relentlessly’ - in ignoring his offspring and in calling her Jean-Pierre. […] It’s beautiful, grave, powerful and as moving as a piece of music by Schumann.”
Nathalie Simon, Figaroscope, October 18, 2010
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| First staged and performed in 2007 by Jean-Marc Bourg at the Théâtre d'O in Montpellier.
Opened in 2009 in Paris (Théâtre Ouvert), staged by Michel Didym, starring Jean-Claude Dreyfus. (Nominated at the 2010 and 2011 Molières awards for best actor, best living French-language playwright and best company).
Opened in 2011 in Laval, staged and performed by Patrick Sueur, Théâtre Dû.
Opened at the Edinburgh Festival, staged by Simon Stokes, starring Simon Callow, August 2011.
Opened in Athens, staged by Katerina Berdeka, starring Faedon Castris, November 2011.
Published by Actes Sud-Papiers in France.
Published by Nick Hern Books in the U.K., translated by Sarah Vermande and Matthew Hurt.
Translated into German, Bulgarian, Greek and Portuguese.
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