The play was chosen by the jury of the Centre de la Marionnette de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Lansman publishing house as part of a writing contest on the theme of “Première(s) fois” [First time(s)].

Rewind is the author’s first play. The characters can be played by puppets, objects, actors or actresses.

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.