Lettres à Anne

LETTRES À ANNE Based on Lettres à Anne (1962-1995) by François MITTERRAND (© Éditions Gallimard) Adaptation: Alice Faure and Céline Roux Directed by: Alice Faure With Samuel Churin and Céline Roux Cie Trop plein de ce qu’il aime / La Scala Productions & Tournées Published twenty years after his death, François Mitterrand's letters to Anne Pingeot trace their romance from 1962 to 1995, secret before becoming public.

Within these letters, an astonishing self-portrait of the statesman is revealed, and, in outline, that of Anne Pingeot, who by choice remained apart from public life and whom we discover through the words of the man who loved her.

This adaptation highlights the journey of an active, desiring, and determined woman who, through the radicalism and demanding nature of her choices, built a life guided by an ideal of the absolute, beauty, and truth.

From letters to the stage, from paper to body, from ink to voice, the actors here give flesh and life to this love of over thirty years, without ever seeking to imitate their models. « TTT. This duo of desires and tears, pleasures and sufferings, overturns heart and soul.

» Télérama « A performance of troubling sensuality, of incredible elegance, making us forget even the names of the protagonists.  » L’Humanité