Alexander Zeldin The Confessions

[Theatre]

In The Confessions, the dramaturge and director Alexander Zeldin composes an epic fresco taking us from Australia to the United Kingdom, and which retells the story of a woman from birth to death.

A human saga straddling two continents, Alexander Zeldin’s project builds up a woman’s portrait at the crossroads between history, in both the wide and narrow sense, along with all its aspirations, and passions. Born in 1943, in Australia, Alice soon finds herself confronted with the narrow-mindedness of a society dominated by the conservatism of the 1950’s, before emancipating herself from it against the backdrop of feminism and sexual liberation, and the search for peace which lead to her departing her native country. Via this central figure, the show retraces the numerous movements which shaped an era in perpetual transformation. This account of a woman who, at the end of her life, casts her mind back on the happy or tragic moments which left their mark on her existence, this "portrait of a heart getting ready to stop beating", forms a vast fresco made all the more touching by the fact that it is loosely based on the director’s own family history.