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In 2015, when I founded the La femme coupée en deux company, I set myself the ambition of writing shows and directing them. In my work, I try to reconcile radical research with the simple pleasure of storytelling. I’m looking to transcend a classic narrative thread through a demanding approach to thinking and a search for absolutely contemporary forms. To achieve this, the artists of La femme coupée en deux bring together the sum of their talents and the tools that make up theater: literary construction, the demands of language, the actor and his acting, spatial devices, sound creation, video creation and lighting design. Obsessed by the question of discrepancies – discrepancies between what we hear and what we see, between the image and the written word, between the visible and the invisible, between the materiality of the stage and the spectator’s imagination – I like the spectator to move around, because that, in my opinion, is his or her greatest freedom. At least the freedom we should give them, and the freedom they should take: the freedom to move their minds. In this way, my pieces can be seen as variable-geometry maps, where each person is free to take the path he or she wishes. Obsessed by the motif of the double, of reality and fiction, of the original and the copy, I never stop talking about the world and its representations. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had the feeling of being surrounded by people split in two. Many things can split people in two: love, money, sexuality, illness, fear of death, religion, terrorism, ambition, culture, politics, family… I also believe in the virtues of theater as a place that can both separate and reconcile people.
Working as a director and actress.
Working in Lille and Marseille.

I can also say: the woman cut in two is me.

La femme coupée en deux is currently associated with Scène Nationale 61 (since 2015), TNP (since 2020), Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (since 2021), Comédie de Béthune (since 2022) and Quai – CDN d’Angers (since 2023).

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