Bientôt le Jour

Presented by Le Théâtre du Merlan.

What drives a person to change their life, to veer off course, in an instant? Surely an intimate seismic shock, an irrepressible act that breaks with a situation that has become unbearable. Perhaps a personal uprising, violent, torn away from the life before to become the founding act of the life to come.

Author and director Julie Bertin has a fondness for individual and collective memories, archives and recent History. She met with around a hundred people who had lived through an inner upheaval, in France or elsewhere. From this quest, she kept the stories of seven women and men of different nationalities: Maxime, an 18-year-old Frenchman, Eduardo, a 91-year-old Spaniard, and Michelle, a 32-year-old Indian woman, among others.

A blend of seven uprisings, in seven languages, whose stories unfold in fragments and are woven together. A simple staging that evolves with the words, memories and places. A mysterious wall at the back, earth scattered across the floor, where dance takes over when words fail or when emotion overflows. Living tableaux, linked by an invisible thread, play out on a single imagined territory, full of promise...