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SHE NOT A PRINCESS
HE NOT A HERO

Creation 2016

Co-productions Théâtre de Romette, Théâtre de Sartrouville and Yvelines - CDN

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Commissioned from Magali Mougel, this text on the question of boy/girl identity is a story in two parts.

The spectators are divided into two groups and guided by Leili on one side, Nils on the other. The two characters will then tell their story where it is a question of tastes, preferences, roles to play, place to hold when one is a boy or a girl. At the intermission, the groups are reversed and the spectators meet the other character.

Stories that look at each other and come together like a puzzle to better deconstruct clichés and stereotypes about identity.

Two actors at the service of a sensitive story playing with memories and a few objects. A theater of speech to be played in all types of non-theatrical places as an intimate and playful space for representation.

It all begins in their childhood. Leili was little, she loved adventure games and dreamed of going hunting birds in the forest. Nils, meanwhile, was a rather fragile boy who liked having long hair and feeling it fly in the wind. One day, these two children find themselves side by side, in the same class... As they tell their stories, each one dismantles piece by piece the social mechanics that assign positions, codes and behaviors to children according to their gender.

It is then up to each spectator to reconstruct this puzzle piece as they see fit.