Maurice

Maurice Dancause, hard-working, brilliant economist and civil servant, wakes up one morning and collapses. STROKE. Nine days in a coma, four years of rehabilitation. Since then, everything has changed: his brain, his tastes, his sensibility, even his personality. And in the background, there's aphasia, the daily struggle to find words. Far from being despondent, Maurice prefers his new life, which he chooses to live to the full.

Fascinated by this luminous story of reconstruction and resilience, author and actress Anne-Marie Olivier slips into the skin of this man with an incandescent spirit. For each performance, she delivers a partly improvised performance that reinvents language to make it her own. Maurice's words are full and overflowing. His thirst to communicate with the world is immense. Each evening, he will need a spectator to bring his story to its conclusion. Inspired by a remarkable life story, Maurice is a dramatic experiment in moving humanity.

Presented in collaboration with Les Voyagements - Théâtre de création en tournée.