Changer l'Eau des Fleurs

Sold out success! Extended run! More than 8,000 spectators in Bordeaux. Following the international success of Valérie Perrin's novel, finally the theatre adaptation!

Based on the novel by Valérie Perrin

Adaptation by Caroline Rochefort and Mikaël Chirinian

Directed by Salomé Lelouch and Mikaël Chirinian

With: Céline Perra, Albert Goldberg and Cédric Carlier

Assistant director: Frédéric Chevaux

Lighting: François Leneveu and Mathieu Le Cuffec

Costumes: Marie-Christine Chardonneau

Set design: Delphine Brouard

Running time: 1h

Violette Toussaint is a cemetery keeper in a small town in Burgundy. Her days are shaped by her work and by the confidences of passers-by and regulars. One day, when a man discovers that his mother wants to be buried beside a stranger, everything changes. Bonds that unite the living and the dead are brought to light. Changer l'Eau des Fleurs tells the intense story of a woman who, despite trials, stubbornly believes in happiness.

Winner of the Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche, the Prix Jules Renard, the Prix de Maison de la Presse...

THE PRESS, at the Paris premiere:

« These beloved characters come to life, and the play keeps the magic of the original text. It is overwhelming!  » - ★★★★ Le Parisien

« Changer l'Eau des Fleurs is a hymn to the beauty of the world!  » - Le Monde du Ciné

« The moved audience gives a standing ovation to comedies one would have liked to keep for longer  » - Art Scène

« A show bathed in empathy, generosity, self-giving and the quest for harmony!  » - Spectatif