Les Jeunes Filles du Bon Pasteur

"It looked like a convent, but it was a prison."

It was after watching the documentary Mauvaises Filles by Emerance Dubas that Margaux Eskenazi had the click. Until the end of the 80s, thousands of young girls, deemed deviant or brazen in the eyes of a hypocritical patriarchal society, found themselves locked up overnight in this religious institution, without knowing when they could get out. Under the guise of "re-education", corporal punishment, forced labor, and collective humiliations accompanied their childhood and adolescence. How could such violence be inflicted by women upon others?

Based on testimonials from former residents of incredible strength of character, Margaux Eskenazi weaves a powerful fiction, the story of Marthe, sent to the Bon Pasteur at 15 years old, on the evening of her father's second marriage.

After its open-air premiere at the Nouveau Théâtre Populaire, the show will be reinvented in an immersive and musical version, heightened by the voices of its heroines. Fifty years later, Marie-Christine and Éveline are more determined than ever to obtain reparations.