Following the cemetery promenade Celles d’en dessous (2022), playwright, costume designer and embroiderer Laure Fonvieille extends and deepens her documentary writing on women by scaling it up to the level of the neighbourhood. This reflection on the notion of matrimoine — “the heritage of mothers” — takes the form of fifteen portraits of women, carried by fifteen actresses in costumed monologues. Fifteen “missing parts”, bringing together prominent figures — politicians, activists, artists, scientists, sportswomen — and women from the Maurepas district in a beautiful theatrical walk.
Following the cemetery promenade Celles d’en dessous (2022), playwright, costume designer and embroiderer Laure Fonvieille extends and deepens her documentary writing on women by scaling it up to the level of the neighbourhood. This reflection on the notion of matrimoine — “the heritage of mothers” — takes the form of fifteen portraits of women, carried by fifteen actresses in costumed monologues. Fifteen “missing parts”, bringing together prominent figures — politicians, activists, artists, scientists, sportswomen — and women from the Maurepas district in a beautiful theatrical walk.
BIOGRAPHY
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Founded in Rennes in 2010 at the initiative of director, writer and costume designer Laure Fonvieille, the company creates theatrical works and artistic and cultural education workshops, working in particular in the fields of documentary theatre and embroidery. Together with writer Ronan Mancec, the company has created Azote et fertilisants (2015), Le cœur de l’hippocampe (2020), Les lectures chantées (2022) and Avec Hélène (2023), followed by Laure Fonvieille’s documentary theatre walks Celles d’en dessous (2022) and Les parts manquantes (2026). Alongside her work as the company’s artistic director, and with both a Master’s degree in Performing Arts and a vocational diploma in dressmaking, she works as a costume designer for many Rennes-based companies, as a dresser for the Théâtre National de Bretagne, and has collaborated with Marine Bachelot Nguyen and Alexandre Koutchevsky, Boris Charmatz, Compagnie La Caravane, L’Unanime, Tchewsky & Wood, Catherine Legrand, Mze Shina, Groupe Vertigo, Théâtre du Vestiaire, Compagnie l’Aronde, Marine De Missolz and others.
DISTRIBUTION
Laure Fonvieille (director, writer and costume designer), Camille Kerdellant, Hélène Vienne, Inès Cassigneul, Marie Thomas and Sophie Renou (actresses and artistic collaborators), Delphine Battour (director of performers and artistic collaborator), Clémence Epaud (production manager), Bénédicte Mbemba, Flora Diguet, Ganna Nikitina, Goëlle, Ji Su Jeong, Marina Keltchewsky, Mouna Belghali, Manon Payelleville, Sophie Richelieu and Nikita Faulon (actresses), Reine Prat (writing mentor), Mariane Le Gaillard (costume intern), Charlène Cadiou, Eve Le Corre, Myriam Rault, Elise Trotta (costume assistant), La mort est dans la boîte (production).
PRODUCTION
Co-productions
Le Canal Théâtre in Redon (35), the Théâtre National de Bretagne (35), Le Pôle Sud in Chartres de Bretagne (35), the City of Strasbourg (67), Les Tombées de la Nuit (35)
Supporters
The DRAC Bretagne, the Brittany Region, the City of Rennes and Rennes Métropole (35), the City of Nantes (44), the Maison Germaine Tillion in Plouhinec (56), L’Agora in Le Rheu (35), Le Théâtre de Poche in Hédé-Bazouges (35), L’Archipel in Fouesnant (29)
And also
From Tuesday, June 30th to Friday, August 28th, in conjunction with the performance, discover the embroidery exhibition “The Missing Parts” presented by the company “La mort est dans la boîte” at the Espace social commun Simone Iff. It features six embroidered portraits of women from our past, from our matrilineal heritage.
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