La vie matérielle

Catherine Artigala is Marguerite Duras. She is writing. She is that life force that moves us through her humour, audacity, carelessness at times, and radicalism often. We will blur the lines. Chiseled lighting, sounds and music will be our allies in invention.

Presence in words, relentless diction, silences like the rustle of the intimate: our project revolves around utterance, the brutality of words that, in Duras' mouth, turns into emotion.

Duras unravels the bond she maintains with the world, male/female relationships, sexuality, her childhood. It touches on her obsessions, her fears, her convictions.

We discover Duras struggling with daily life that she finds hard to master, curling into sensuality—a magnificent path toward pleasure—mixing taboo and grace as a masterstroke of defiance against comfortable, bourgeois propriety.