An old woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease is regularly visited by a caretaker. Following the caretaker’s advice, and to delay the consequences of her disease, she records her memories of the objects that surround her on audio cassettes. The audience discovers her story: her childhood in Paris during World War Two, the encounter with the father of her children, her love story with a woman she met in a feminist group in the seventies. The text is structured between daytime, with the recordings and dialogues, and nighttime, when the old woman monologues about the progress of her disease. As the days and nights pass, her state of health deteriorates until she has to be sent to a facility for dependent elderly persons.

Not specified

France

Printed

Alzheimer

Old age

Remembrance

Memory

Homosexuality

Photography

Dramatic

Première(s) fois, éditions Lansman 2012

French

Old woman

Nursing assistant

Monologue

Speech-narrative

Recorded voice

Inner dialogue

Rewind