<p>Through various scenes that follow one another without necessarily being linked, The text evokes the deportation of Jews to the concentration camps through a poetic diversions. The common thread running through the entire play is the character of the little girl, about seven years old, who meets different characters, human or not: a Man who shrinks the sky, a Little Pile of Ashes, a Train, a Chimney. Each character appears as a metaphor charged with meaning, first and foremost the Little Pile of Ashes, which materializes in a macabre and at the same time "light" way the ashes of the victims burned in the ovens. At the end of the play, the little girl, who has lost both her innocence and her life force, also disappears, swallowed up by the little pile of ashes.<br /></p>

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Cagnard Jean

France

Cannes

Printed

Shoah

Death

Loss

Concentration camp

Lightness

Change of age of the characters

Poetry

Historical event

Pathetic

Lyrical

French

Granddaugther

Father

Mother

Grandmother

Puppet theatre within the theatre

Transforming scenery

Change of size on sight

Active stage directions

Board

Allegory

Les Gens légers

Th light people