Spectacle - Croire aux fauves

Adapted from her autobiographical account, Believing in Wild Beasts tells the story of anthropologist Nastassja Martin's metamorphosis after being bitten in the face by a bear in Kamchatka. Prosthetics, make-up and costumes are at the heart of this show, which unfolds over 4 seasons like the 4 chapters of a reconstruction.

Laure Werckmann explores a theater of sobriety, with the stage incarnation and immediacy of the body at its core, to illustrate a rebirth. The book, with its extraordinary power, resonates powerfully on stage.

Programmed as part of the 47th Livre sur la Place festival.
Also as part of Livre sur la Place, Julia Vidit and other theater artists will lend their voices to the first pages of the novels shortlisted for the Prix Stanislas for the best first novel of the new literary season. Saturday September 13 and Sunday September 14 - forum Bernard Pivot.

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