Prière aux vivants

A hymn to art as a form of resistance, to friendship as the only hope.

Between recounted moments and poetry, this one-man show is a tale of resilience told with modesty in an intimacy with the audience. A hymn to art as a form of resistance, to friendship as the only hope.

Marie Torreton retraces the years of deportation of Charlotte Delbo, a French resistance fighter transferred to Auschwitz in January 1943, and gives us, in a moving testimony, moments of life and death.
How did she and some of her classmates survive? This question is at the heart of this one-man show adapted from the writings of Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After.
In hell, these women have forged a boundless solidarity, they have succeeded in bringing out glimmers of life, strands of light in the very heart of death. There is, in their friendship, an overwhelming tenderness that Marie Torreton has brought to light.
A woman of the theatre, assistant to Louis Jouvet, Charlotte Delbo thought that if she reached the end of her memory, she would die. She remembered 57 poems and memorized the Misanthrope to recite it to herself, in its entirety, at the morning roll.