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The old woman walking in the sea

thu. 23 Jan. 23 Jan.

20h00
20 €

• theater
• meet up
• grandmother
• tale
• stage

Published In 1988 and considered one of the masterpieces of Frédéric Dard, La Vieille who walked In The Sea is a puzzling work that upsets the taboos of sex, love and morality. In a raw and often hilarious language, the author tells us the funny story of an old scammer who chooses a successor before hanging up.

Lady M., a champion of the scam, travels the world in the company of her old accomplice Pompilius, a former Romanian diplomat who was also his lover. Only Lady M. is aging: at 85, she must now take support on a cane, walk in the sea to calm osteoarthritis that Martyrise His meeting with
Lambert, a young unemployed plagist whose fall She madly falls in love, will change the curve of fate. Sixty years separate them? who cares!
In retrospect Frédéric Dard notes: I did not suspect, at that moment, that I was going to commit the most squeaky work of my career, to sink In a black fairy tale to you In flank the vertigo, and maybe even exceed certain limits
Frederick Dard (1921-2000), aka San Antonio, was mainly known for the adventures of Commissioner San Antonio. Most read writer of the second half of the twentieth century with some 200 million copies, he was also the most prolific. Son of a small heating contractor, he is raised by his beloved grandmother who gives him the taste of literature. Frédéric Dard has officially written two hundred and eighty-eight novels, twenty plays and sixteen adaptations for the cinema.
Katia Scarton-Kim, of Swiss origin, is a director, director and actress. Coming from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Lausanne, she works at the Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne before taking a one-way trip to Paris. She was artistic director of Théâtre André Bourvil in Paris from 1995 to 1998. In 2003, she turned to the cinema and directed several short films that will be awarded, then a first feature film In 2016.
It is Marja-Leena Junker who embodies the scam Lady M. In The staging of Katia Scarton-Kim who works for the first time at the tnl

Adaptation and staging: Katia scarton-kim
Scenography and costumes: Christian Klein
Assistance with Staging and Dramaturgy: Carole fontaine

With: Marja-Leena Junker, Lionel Liegeois, Jacques Roehrich

A production: Théâtre National du Luxembourg
Co-directing for Broadcasting: Swing! Theatrical company nancy