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ELLE Marie-Pierre Cattino | | Book Cover |
| | | ELLE has been gone for ten years without a trace. One day she rings the doorbell at her parents’ house. She comes back every evening at dinnertime. It’s a game of suffering where everyone has a role to play. No one character is more important than the others. When one goes silent, another one takes advantage of it. ELLE remains content with silence at first, then words come like a lava flow. When ELLE leaves for the second time, her parents stand up, but it’s too late. |
| “It’s much harder to write a play with three characters than one with ten or twelve, that’s the paradoxical situation. Fewer characters in the hope of it getting produced, yes, but then it’s as if you had increased the power of the magnifying glass focused on your three characters. Marie-Pierre Cattino has already mastered this and knows how to write words and their shadows, silences, subtext, pain, secret wounds, oppression, family tragedies, in almost hushed tones, remaining herself all the while and not turning up the volume.”
Jean-Claude Grumberg, excerpt from the preface to the published play
“Marie-Pierre Cattino has found her place in the collection des Quatre-Vents thanks to the singularity and strangeness of her world, and to the way private suffering is expressed in clearly portrayed writing. Elle and Tirée au cordeau are, each in its own way, expressions of the same female voice trying to understand the reasons for the violence carried out against women in families, but without dipping into pathos or abstraction. On the contrary, they are remarkably fitting, triggering emotions that are both personal and universal.”
Olivier Celik, editor-in-chief of Editions L’Avant-Scène Théâtre |
| To open at the Avignon OFF Festival by the Sérieuse compagnie, at the Théâtre de la Bourse du Travail, July 7th-30th, at 4:40 p.m.
Direction: Ivan Ferré. Cast : Aïni Iften, Laure Vallès, Pierre Azaïs.
Opened at the Teatro Argot in Rome, May 30, 2007.
Director: Tiziano Panici. Cast: Magda Marcatali, Paolo Triestino, Anita Ferri.
Italian translation by Pino Tierno.
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| Characters : 2 women - 1 men - L'Avant-Scène, Collection des Quatre-Vents - www.avant-scene-theatre.com |
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