Atelier d’écriture créative « Catherine » par Laetitia Ayrès & Maëlise Parisot

« Catherine »: based on the screenplays of "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg", "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort", "Peau d'âne", lend an ear to the music of the text.

presentation and immersion through reading fragments and musical excerpts;

2 writing sessions to music with guidelines;

a final free writing session;

reading to music: selection of phrases from the final writing session, accompanied by the cello improvising along with the texts.

About the workshops

These are writing workshops led as a duo – Laetitia Ayrès, author/singer, and Maëlise Parisot, cellist – where music illustrates, inspires, and then dialogues with your words. Here, adaptations of the same figure — like Sally, Holly, or Catherine — bring a new breath to writing each time. No prerequisites, other than the desire to let oneself be guided by a character and make one's pen travel from focused prompts, inspired in turn by the novel, the screenplay, and the songs that brought it to life. Until the words leave the page, read and accompanied live by the cello.

About the facilitators

They have been accomplices on stage for years, from Avignon festivals to opera houses:

Laetitia Ayrès, singer, actress and author, tells stories on stage as well as on paper. Her first novel Matriochka (2021) is published by Michel Lafon and in paperback by J'ai Lu, and Renverser la nuit has just been published by editions Le Soir venu (2026). On stage this year, she performs her musical stand-up dedicated to film music "Wonderful World", and performs Offenbach characters on tour.

"A show as sharp as it is invigorating" Télérama TT – show "Wonderful World"

"A successful transgenerational and literary encounter" ELLE – novel Renverser la nuit

Maëlise Parisot, cellist and double bassist, has several strings to her bow and several repertoires close to her heart: classical, folk, and musical theater. It is above all freedom that she seeks when playing, and improvisation comes naturally to her. This year she will be on tour with "La vie de bohème", "Baudelaire Piazzolla", her band Les Red Folks, and will notably join Laetitia in "Wonderful World".

Photo credit Camille Issaad.