"Forget Me" at the Anthea-Antipolis Theatre in Antibes

Friday, 7 June 2024

Published on the website : Resonances Lyriques Org

©Frederique Toulet

Standing ovation all the way to the back row of the balcony!

It's a cry! It's a hymn to life, to love. In an entirely pink setting, to see life in this colour from beginning to end, like a pact made with the sweetness of life, a promise never to forget: to love! A couple falls in love simply and deeply... with humour.

But while pink may be a symbol of happy feelings, it is no defence against illness, accidents, injustice, fate... What only happens to others eventually penetrates the monochrome home before our astonished, powerless eyes. From forgetting trivialities to forgetting loved ones, from the invisible to the unspeakable, from denial to struggle, Alzheimer's disease devastates two lives in one fell swoop.

Theatre? Conference? Cinema? Documentary? An evening with friends? The fourth wall between actors and spectators is crossed, broken, destroyed by the direct language of the stage to the audience, the natural sincerity of the actors-authors' performances. Everything is set out on graph paper, from lighting to sound, from performances to confessions...

Dynamism, joy, tears, hope, courage: this pair of actors has forever engraved in our memories the unbearable transience of being...

A must-see!

Nathalie AUDIN

Avec : Thierry Lopez et Marie-Julie Baup

According to In Other Words de Matthew Seager

Adapted, directed and performed by Marie-Julie Baup, Thierry Lopez

Costumes Michel Dussarrat

Set design Bastien Forestier

Lights Moïse Hill

Sound design Maxence Vandevelde

Choreography Anouk Viale

Assistant director Pauline Tricot

Contemporary theatre workshop production

Co-production MK PROD’, Louis d’Or Production, IMAO with the support of Scène Mermoz in Bois-Colombes