La Vie Matérielle

Presented by Le Théâtre de l'épée de bois

"Catherine Artigala is Marguerite Duras. She is writing. She is that life force that moves us with her humour, her audacity, her carefree attitude, sometimes, her radicality, often. We will blur the lines. The sculpted light and the sounds and music will be our allies in invention. Presence to words, implacable diction, silences like the rustling of intimacy, our project revolves around speaking, the brutality of words which, in Duras's mouth, transforms into emotion. Duras untangles the link she maintains with the world, with male/female relationships, with sexuality, with her childhood. It is about her obsessions, her fears, her convictions. We discover a Duras struggling in a daily life she struggles to master, nestling in sensuality, a magnificent path towards pleasure, mixing the forbidden and grace like a masterful snub to bourgeois and comfortable conformism. " William Mesguich

Text: Marguerite Duras

Directed by: William Mesguich

Cast: Catherine Artigala