Report behind the scenes of the creation of Julie Deliquet and Lorraine de Sagazan played by a troop of amateurs from the city of Seine-Saint-Denis, before representations from July 1 to 3.
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On the stage, a crater full of water, an electric ramp which hangs and spotlights that litter the ground. An alarm siren sounds. Is it war? An abandoned city? A group of women dressed in a rain poncho forces a door and rushes into the darkness, their torch lamps sweeping the room. A dozen terrorized children enter, accompanied by their dance teacher. Later, teenage girls soaked after swimming at the leisure center that arise, haggard. Thirty girls, young girls and women will find refuge in this dilapidated lair that constitutes an old abandoned theater.
This Wednesday, June 29, at the Gérard-Philipe theater (TGP) in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), it is a rehearsal evening before the general and the three evenings where girl (s) will be played , the new play by Julie Deliquet and Lorraine de Sagazan. During an hour and a half, around thirty adults or becoming will tell themselves, to weave links, to recognize themselves, despite the age differences: on stage as in their daily lives, women in a male world, girls of mothers too , some uprooted in their own history. The two directors set up the game, resume a tirade. The concentrated troop, despite the working day or school, listens and resumes. Between small and large, the complicity is visible.
Experimental project
The play is first of all the fruit of meeting these three groups formed for an experimental project. In real life, children and adults are first of all residents of Saint-Denis, popular suburb of northern Ile-de-France. The director of the TGP wanted to recruit lovers from associative fabric or neighborhood houses: “The idea was to be between women – because the feminine induces work on emancipation -, each letting go from her history” , explains Julie Deliquet. Hours of improvisation, writing in a generational group, rehearsals and, in the end, a touching and living text rewritten by Leïla Anis.
in this story of women mues by a desire to be alive, we recognize The intonations of standing women! (2021), the documentary by François Ruffin (MP LFI) and Gilles Perret. Or testimonies from the film A La Vie (2021), by Aude Pépin. Each tells their daily life of work – The passages on the fate of caregivers in a breath of breath are particularly glaring of truth -, its defeats and its small victories on life. The emotion is there, very present when Merbouha, the linen, cap upside down on the head, tells the first loved woman and the crazy sweetness experienced; Or when the young Soumaya describes the abuse that, all her childhood, her mother made her undergo, before she decides to flee. Behind these stories, we feel the experiences of certain young actresses, and that sounds right.
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