Description
The fragile yet powerful voice of a contemporary tragedy, that of a single mother, in precarious social and psychological circumstances, who takes her two young sons to see the sea. A few days' vacation from misery, with the immensity of the sea as the only horizon.
A dingy hotel, out of season. The dazzling lights of a funfair in the distance. The sea nearby, and above all, the rain. These are the hours leading up to this inexplicable, irreparable tragedy, described by this woman with almost maniacal precision. She clings to details, as if they could stop the fall, but nothing can stop the tragedy.
Véronique Olmi has written a text of overwhelming simplicity, as close to this woman as possible. Each sentence moves forward like a wave, fragile and implacable. Motherly love, far from being denied, is paradoxically at the heart of the tragedy. Élise Clary, a member of the Troupe du TNN, will carry this message, alone on stage, facing the sky, the audience and the silence.
Muriel Mayette-Holtz thus affirms that contemporary tragedy deserves the ancient stones of the Arènes de Cimiez. Celebrating invisible existences, fragile lives that the world refuses to look at, under the sky of Nice, at a time when the light is fading, Bord de mer reveals itself as a confidence, a song of love and despair, an insomnia of the heart.
