Last Thoughts of a Condemned Man Through His Journal and the Memories of His Daughter Marie: A Forceful Indictment Against the Death Penalty, According to Victor Hugo.
Gilles Ikrelef and his team from the company “On the Path of the Hills” made a strong impact […] The spectators, elected officials, and cultural affairs leaders from Var all held their breath […] The play was intense and the staging ambitious. – Var Matin, 09/10/2006
It has been twenty years since her father was executed! But “She,” little Marie, what has she become? She was 3 years old when she saw him for the last time… It’s been twenty years since, following this execution, “Her grandmother died, her mother too… Unless she went mad…”, as Victor Hugo suggests, but “She”… Little Marie… What has she become?
“Perhaps I may still have time to write a few pages for her, so that she can read them one day, and cry in 20 years for today… Yes, she must learn my story from me…” the condemned man tells us through Victor Hugo’s pen. Several times, as he shares his last thoughts, he returns to and worries about what will become of his child.
The show begins, Marie revisits this painful moment of her existence. She is now 23 years old and has as her only inheritance a trunk whose key she has worn around her neck for as long as she can remember. It’s the moment she has finally chosen to settle accounts with her past, her troubled childhood, her rebellion against society, her father, who, to her, abandoned her… In the trunk, several items, including the manuscript of his final moments, of a condemned man…
Production:
Company On the Path of the Hills
Text by Victor Hugo
Adaptation and Direction: Gilles Ikrelef
Choreographic Work: Anne Boyer
With Isis Eymery, Jean-François Bony, Gilles Ikrelef
On November 12 at 8 PM
