Fabien Gorgeart
Delphine de Vigan Les Gratitudes

[Theatre]

Fabien Gorgeart adapts the narrative might of Les Gratitudes, the novel by Delphine de Vigan. It recounts the final moments in the life of Michka and her words which little by little fail her. Despite the fear of the forthcoming silence, the protagonist builds up a relation with Jérôme, her speech-therapist, enabling her to delve deep into the intricacies of her past. 

In the eyes of Fabien Gorgeart, Les Gratitudes is a life-filled novel which is endowed with a great deal of theatrical potential. Onstage, Michka is surrounded by Jérôme and Marie, her two main points of reference at the nursing home where she will end her days. They bear witness to the aphasia which progressively falls victim to, leading to the dislocation of her use of language. Confronted with the violence of this loss, Michka attempts to recover snippets from her past. When she was a child, a couple saved her life. The silence and trauma of yesterday collide with that of the last days of her life. Onstage, Fabien Gorgeart blurs the frontiers between the place of the memory and the present moment. Doubt creeps in… What do we really see? In this wavering of the real, theatre affirms itself, carried along by the words of Delphine de Vigan in a powerful yet delicate way. Our unsettled perception of the stage becomes the breeding ground for an exploration into language and time.