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Vache sans herbe
Sabine Tamisier
Vache sans herbe
photo: Jean-Louis Alessandra
Actes du théâtre n° 73.[ imprimer ]


starting age 13

This morning Juliette says she ‘‘caught her death.’’ Her doctor, Marcel Bouligon, informed her that there were lumps in her stomach. Probably due to the loss of her father and of her boyfriend Martin, strangled by an eel while carp fishing. Marcel Bouligon doesn’t know what to do, and in fact has never known what to do with this family! On top of it he has a raging toothache and his wife left him. So he locks himself up at home and Juliette locks herself up at home too. Her mother, Romance, wants to do whatever she can to save her. She makes her daughter go back to see Docteur Bouligon and tells him that if he saves her daughter she’ll agree to marry him. The doctor wants to operate on Juliette but she refuses. She wants to keep her lumps and also to know what they look like. Even if it means finding out they are like ‘‘Paintings…full of details and colors.’’ Juliette goes through the grieving process with the help of artwork and paintings … and Romance marries Marcel!

Why We Chose This Text: We were won over by this magnificent play about grieving and the difficulty of coming back to life after a loss. Colorful characters whose excesses also reveal their humanity and flaws, making them more and more endearing. Very earthy poetry and writing, both quite unusual. This melodrama works through the strangeness of the narration, the quality of the writing, and the love the playwright has for her characters, her way of seeing people and misfortunes that is both tender, keen and mischievous. It’s funny, sad, touching and acerbic.

Words from the author:Talking about grieving and illness in a way that the story can be heard by both adults and children from the age of 10-12.
That was the commission from the Senna’ga Compagnie. So I tried to bring to life these colorful characters in whom tragedy rubs shoulders with burlesque and whimsy. Each of them is going through his own grieving process, all suffering from the loss of someone dear, whether the person left for other earthly horizons or for the unknown territory of death. The character of Juliette, the desire to evoke the life-saving power of creating, a possible healing through the expression of an art form. For Romance and Marcel, a bright spell in their struggle for Juliette’s life and their budding love.


Characters : 2 women - 1 men -

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