Their names are Andréa Bescond, Ludivine Sagnier, Marianne Basler, Elodie Navarre, Eleonora Galasso. These five actresses have in common that they talk about violence against women and that they are alone on stage to speak out about this long-silenced message. Sexual assault, domestic violence, child crime, clandestine abortion: whether they are personal stories or adaptations of books, these cathartic monologues move, shake up, question, because they lift the veil on shame, denial or the fear that often prevented these painful experiences from being expressed. The stage becomes the place for transmitting these women’s stories. Meetings with those who embody them.
Eleonora Galasso didn’t want to be “neither in pathos, nor in activism, nor in denunciation” to recount his nine years spent under the influence of a violent spouse. But in the ” healing “ for herself and « transmission » for the others. And what better place, for this culinary columnist and author of recipe books, than a kitchen to share and confide in her story. It is this familiar setting that the now actress chose to reveal herself in Devouring, a show in the form of an Italian tragicomedy. When he was young, his mother taught him to “make the pasta”but not to speak (“I feed you, but we keep quiet”, she summarizes). As an adult, Elenora Galasso blinded herself to the danger of a toxic relationship. “What interested me was to understand how I got there, what my share of responsibility was, why I had put ham on my eyes. »
“Empowered with a mission”
Alternating scenes of joy in sharing her recipes and others of pain about this painful past, she puts herself on the grill and does her introspection. “I needed to expel this marital experience, this destructive experience, in the most authentic way possible to make a new start. » Eleonora Galasso fought to put on this hybrid show that she wanted “feverishly” see it succeed. Today, public feedback and letters received are worth rewards. “It’s like you’re talking to me.”a spectator admitted to him. “I feel invested with a mission. I had to tell my truth so that people would tell each other their truth.”insists the actress.
Many spectators also confided in Andréa Bescond, whose show Tickling or the Dance of Anger has changed the way we look at child crime. Created in 2014 at the Avignon “off” Festival, Molière du Seul(e)-en-scène in 2016, which became a film in 2018, this story of a little girl raped by a friend of her parents will be resumed in April at Théâtre de l’Atelier, in Paris. « Tickles, which I wrote to get better and performed on stage to transform mud into beauty, represented for me the beginning of a great repair and filled the immense loneliness I felt. I didn’t know there were so many of us”traces Andréa Bescond.
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