A woman in a fur coat. Her body on the ground. Her only luggage is a satchel, a handkerchief and a lipstick stick. She has only one shoe. A voice-over calls out to her, questions her, provokes her. It’s the beginning of a series of shifts, the disparate pieces of a puzzle that we try to piece together from clues that we don’t know if they’re imaginary or not, fragments of destinies and deaths. Both playful and dramatic. The show questions a woman’s identity. She is lost. One and multiple, she performs a theatrical dissection of her existence before our very eyes.
Agnès Limbos has always been fascinated by the power of the object as an actor in its own right, and by the actor’s ability to manipulate it. The kitchen table, in one corner of the stage, becomes a reduction of the theater stage, where manipulated objects recreate scenes from everyday life. Some objects are used to tell stories, while others evoke memories or revive the past…