Personne d'autre: an intimate monologue with Aurélie Saada at Théâtre Marigny

Personne d'autre is an adaptation of the monologue "Une lettre de mariage", taken from the collection of short stories by German playwright Botho Strauss. Aurélie Saada, alone on stage, plays a woman with a broken heart who, faced with abandonment, seeks to rebuild her life. The text explores the twists and turns of grief and resilience in a raw, poetic style.

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The story opens with a woman alone in a large apartment, wrapped in the jacket of the man she has loved for seventeen years. He's marrying someone else and hasn't invited her to the ceremony. She writes him a letter, oscillating between anger, lucidity and hope. "You are happy and blind, I am unhappy and I see", she confides, in an attempt to express the unspeakable and transform pain into rebirth.

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Under the direction of Daniel Benoin, the staging is based on the purity and power of words. Far from a simple narrative, "Personne d'autre" is a sensory performance in which text blends with intense physical expression. The musicality of Aurélie Saada's language and gestures lend an organic dimension to this one-woman show.

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This show will appeal to those who appreciate deep monologues, intimate accounts of feelings and reflections on love and loss. It will also appeal to audiences sensitive to literary texts and the power of words. On the other hand, those seeking more narrative theater or dynamic staging may be thrown off balance by this pared-down, introspective format.

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