L’Amante anglaise

Man and wife, Pierre and Claire Lannes, answer in turns the questions asked by the inspector. From the beginning, Claire Lannes acknowledges having killed their cook and housekeeper and then having cut up her body into pieces before scattering the parts in different areas. Pierre Lannes, who lives under the same roof, saw nothing. Marguerite Duras drew inspiration from a real story to write L’Amante anglaise, but what truly interested her behind the criminal case was the unfathomable, metaphysical mystery of these strange people. Why did Claire Lannes kill the maid? Dominique Reymond embodies this woman who exists “on the other side of the world”, beyond any moral judgement. Nicolas Bouchaud and Laurent Poitrenaux complete this elusive trio for whom the questions seem to create disturbing discrepancies and open up silences rather than providing for answers. With this play written in a deceitfully simple language, Émilie Charriot delves into a type of theatre centred on words where the actors are laid bare with the text and before the public in an intense, paradoxical interpretation somewhere between lucidity and darkness.