How to overcome the death of a child? How to live with the nightmare of fate, guilt, the gaze of others? In this strong and intense monologue, signed Élisabeth Gentet-Ravasco and directed by Stéphane Daurat, the actress Véronique Augereau delivers to the spectator with sincerity and tenderness, her confession as a woman, her testimony as a mother, faced with the tragedy of the loss of ‘a son.
Imagine the police knocking on your door one day. They bring you terrible news. of the death of your child.
You saw it on TV, the images are looping, a shooting took place at a party between young people. And your child was among them.
To this slap of incredible violence is added an even more violent uppercut: the son is dead, yes, but he is also the one who killed.
Alone on the stage of the Manufacture des Abbesses theater in Paris, the actress Veronique Augereau slips into the skin of this mother who tries to overcome the tragedy and who carries the rest of the family, devastated, at arm’s length.
The play “After Chaos” is a text by Elisabeth Gentet-Ravasco, staged by Stephane Daurat and which is played until April 6 on the stage of the Manufacture des Abbesses.
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