L’AMANTE ANGLAISE

From a sordid news item dating from 1949, Marguerite Duras composed one of her most brilliant works, where the crime eludes all explanation. Director Émilie Charriot takes hold of this dizzying text and turns it into a theatre of the word, always on edge, between silence and revelation. One night, Claire Lannes murders her deaf and mute cousin. She confesses, but remains incapable of explaining her action.

From this enigma, the play moves into a murky zone, where all logic slips away. An interrogator questions in turn the husband, then the murderer. From these exchanges emerges a fragmented, tense speech, revealing the fractures of a couple frozen in indifference. Here, the investigation solves nothing. It opens, digs, explores what resists language.

Carried by three exceptional performers - Dominique Reymond, Nicolas Bouchaud, Laurent Poitrenaux - the show gives flesh to a gripping work, which questions the dark part in each of us.