OLONZAC
With Blanches, Compagnie La Marotte presents a sensitive and luminous play about filiation, memory and intergenerational ties. Granny Blanche and her granddaughter Ouais share a joyful complicity: they play, dance, tell stories? Ouais has a sharp tongue, and Blanche, whimsical and free, transmits to her in her own way a taste for living outside the box.
But since the death of Pépé Lulu, Blanche has changed. She becomes unpredictable and strange. The play deals delicately with the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease, without ever lapsing into pathos. Using simple words and funny, touching situations, it builds bridges between childhood and old age, between memories and transmission.
Blanches is a tender, funny and profoundly human piece of theater for audiences of 10 and over, thanks to the inventive staging and subtle musical score by two accomplished actresses.
