Marina and Audrey are sisters and haven’t seen each other for years. When one of them bursts into the other’s workplace, words and emotions come flooding out: childhood grudges, past hurts and present anger pour out in a torrent. Both are cruel, cross the line and pour out everything that’s on their minds right in the other’s face. To get things off their chests, of course, but also, perhaps, to rebuild their bond and stay close to one another for a little while longer.
Through writing that is as deafening as it is precise, Pascal Rambert succeeds in capturing the full ambivalence of the sisterly bond: by turns a place of confrontation and reconciliation, the dialogue swells and stretches until it fills the entire space. Placing the search for rhythm at the heart of her approach, Anne Schwaller builds on the author’s work and dissects on stage the bond that connects the two sisters, come what may. Like a true conductor, she works on the lines by ear, shaping the voices of the actresses Marie Druc and Caroline Gasser in search of the right breath, intonations and tempo. Silences. For not everything is expressed through words alone: their absence is also central, weaving a silent dialogue into the subtext with a universal theme.
