There are very nasty things regarding me in the distance, which are true, true, true, but the plain is in the wind. Marguerite Anzieu
From the words of a woman interned in Sainte-Anne in 1882, the Impressions of a hallucinator excerpts from the magazine L’Encephale, Isabelle Lafon and Johanna Korthals Altes direct us to the frontiers of mental distress, the one that can affect us all, cross us in a more or less acute or prolonged way. Imbued with these writings and encounters with psychiatrists, hospitalized children or adults, they make these stories a personal and delicate journey towards madness from which confidences arise, subversive and furious like little shards of glass. It is not a question of saying that we are all in a state of madness, nor of refuting normality, but rather of mixing them to learn to cross paths, to listen to each other, to meet. Accept with fragility to see the distant in the near. Let a wind of madness blow until we jostle.
following cycle The rebellious presented in 2016, Light Views in 2019 and The Reckless created in 2022, Isabelle Lafon continues her companionship at La Colline with this creation.
• I leave without me, design and direction: Isabelle Lafon, with: Johanna Korthals Altes and Isabelle Lafon. From January 17 to February 12, 2023, Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m., Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m., The Hill National Theater15 Rue Malte-Brun, Paris 75020
