Héloïse Desrivières turns a beauty tutorial into a magical ritual, a journey toward the reclaiming of her body and the recapture of desire. Her mischievous epic blends the grotesque with the sublime.
In the middle of the stage, a white bathtub: in her bathroom, Astrid – a young mother and nursing student – shares without filter her daily life as a single mother after the loss of her partner. Her speech blends narrative, poetic witticisms and praise of beauty for a nocturnal magical ritual of reclaiming – of the body, of desire, of freedoms – that will lead her from her bathtub to the wild space of the forest.
Staging of the text published by Héloïse Desrivières with éditions Théâtrales in 2023, Déesses, je me maquille pour ne pas pleurer confronts motherhood and its upheavals head-on, oscillating between raw language and dreamlike imagery.