‘We have been living together for fifty-eight years and I love you more than ever. I recently fell in love with you once again and once more I carry within me a consuming emptiness that only your body pressed against mine can fill.’ – André Gorz
This letter written by André Gorz, philosopher, thinker and journalist, when he was 82 years old, is intended for his wife Dorine. It forcefully retraces their life as lovers, companions, partners: the history of a love. Dirk Roofthooft, alone on the stage, will put flesh and blood into this text to convey the trembling and the flaws of these words, to relate a love that holds out against death itself.
‘On reading this text, I was overwhelmed by the fact that this intimate relationship could come and fit into a wider picture. These two uprooted beings were bonded together by ‘what they had that was least sociable’, and that bond became a ‘pied-à-terre’, where they felt in security and could exist and go towards the world.’ – Coline Struyf
director
- Coline Struyf
text
- André Gorz
translation
- Martine Bom
with
- Dirk Roofthooft
scenography
- Sophie Carlier
light design
- Amélie Géhin
sound design
- David Defour
assistance of the director
- Amel Benaïssa
production
- Centre Dramatique / Maison de la Culture de Tournai
- L'Ancre Charleroi
- Théâtre National Wallonie - Bruxelles
- Toneelhuis
- Théâtre de Namur
- Théâtre de Liège
in collaboration with
- vzw Mariedl
