THAT I LOVE YOU ! LOVE LETTER
That I love you ! Love letter
Young girls, mature women, old ladies, all generations have addressed the letters of the heart of magazinesfeminine in the 50s and 60s. Clémence Massart seizes these letters and offers us slices of life, hilarious,moving, testimony of those times before the pill, the law Veil and especially before 68.But in terms of ignorance and concern about "love," little has changed. And these letters,coming from a bygone era, are all the more touching and funny.
Note of intent by Clémence Massart, the author
When this show was premiered in July 1995 at the Théâtre des Carmes in Avignon, I was far from thinking I could play it again23 years later. Then, in the light of the new "free speech of women" (and its excesses ...!), The opportunity is given to metoday to replay these letters from the 50s / 60s. Indeed, they resonate singularly. Written in pencil or penBut their language seems old, obsolete, even kitsch, but it's only the form that has changed, or the way, because today,
their questions, confessions and confessions remain the same. Finally, with regard to ignorance andConcerns about "love", and ... of the "career" it induces, little has changed. And these letters, testimonyof a bygone era, are even more touching and funny.
Note of intent by Philippe Caubère, the director
In 1995, during the creation of Que je t'aime!, I wrote:
"When Clemence told me that she intended to create a show based on these women's letters, on whichI stumbled upon it, she added, "You'll help me, huh, Budu? The air of saying, "I who helped you with your Devil Dance andyour Roman of an Actor ... "Thought, I tried to accompany him in the choice and arrangement of letters,songs, moves, playing rhythms and lights. I tried to help him through these steps by avoiding himthe trap-huntings, the dead ends, suggesting to him shortcuts or on the contrary drifts, all these things to whichthe fifteen years of writing an actor's novel had made me used to it. All this by forbidding me never to intervene in thiswhich is the heart of this show and its raison d'être: the ideas, images and choices of Clemence. That's the author here,in the full sense of the word, and whatever the charm of these anonymous and wonderful letters, is the actress. Basically, the mostThe great success of this "staging" would be that it is forgotten for the benefit of the actress. From the phenomenon. "- 23 years later, I do not have a word to withdraw and very little to add. Except that it's even better. Age, this scarecrow ofactors and, of course, actresses, only enhances and better illuminates the performance of the actress. The contextThis famous feminist "revolution" gives the "liberated word" by these letters from the 50s or 60s aforce that it had perhaps not quite yet in 95. In any case a look at things more cruel and heavy sense.
But still poetic. What is essential. Because the theater is an art. Now, like all artists: painters, writers,musicians or sculptors, actors, actresses need time, a lot of time, to become themselves. Forto find the meaning as well as the way, I mean the style, of their art, and perhaps also of their life.
Why do they, have they, at one point made that choice? It's probably when we understand that we can startto really "radiate". And Clemence shines, that's the least we can say. I would like all the girls,teenage girls, young women as well as old ones, those who are our age, come to laugh to see her to embody her multiplescharacters and cry to hear him sing his tragic songs. They will draw, I know, a unique lesson. Thatthat only the theater can give when it takes the trouble: the lesson of life. But for that, it must be crossed, received,confronted, combated and tamed. So talent and spirit do the rest. Come see Clemence, you will never forget it.