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LA DOULEUR DE MARGUERITE DURAS
Culture · Tuesday, November 10 · 21:00 · Toulouse
LA CAVE POÉSIE, 71 Rue du Taur
LA DOULEUR DE MARGUERITE DURAS describes the endless waiting for the return of Robert L., deported to Dachau. Pain is a testimony. That of war, seen from the ‘back’ as one says, that of a woman waiting for her husband, not knowing whether he is dead or alive. It is ‘the waiting of all women,’ as Duras will say. After an initial version of this show, it seemed urgent and necessary to make this text heard again, in a shorter version, with a back-and-forth between reading and embodiment. To continue bearing witness, at a time when the last witnesses are disappearing, and pl…
