On November 19, 2011, at 8:30 PM, the young theatre company “dire-dire” will bring to life the texts of Maxence Fermine at the Grasse theater. This text is “Neige.”
Three actresses give voice to this refined, concise, and unadorned language; three women who are at once character, narrator, and actor, narrate in the third person and live in the first, each transitioning from one state to another.
The young Japanese man Yuko has chosen his path: he will be a poet, against his father’s wishes. By his side is Soseki, the old blind painter and former samurai who introduces him to the art of haikus. Between them hovers the haunting image of a woman who vanished into the snow… Is it a dream? A fairy tale? A reverie? “Neige,” the first novel by Maxence Fermine, speaks of love of life and the quest for the absolute, blending soft sounds with harsh reality.
