“Aurora in the night”, a room that invites you to see the light rather than the shadow

“I have an unspeakable strength in me that will accompany all my existence to me: Hope.” These are the last words of Aurore, heroine of the play Aurora in the nightwritten and played by Marie Fournet and Floriane de Malestroit. The show is presented in Avignon (Vaucluse), as part of the Off festival, from July 5 to 26; Then in Rome on July 31 on the occasion of the Jubilee of young people.

This two-in-scène, the fruit of a work of writing and neat staging, tells the story of Aurore, a young artist whose life rocks when her fiancé leaves her brutally, while a promising future opened up to her in painting. On the advice of her sister, she leaves a few days in a convent. There, she discovers monastic life and experiences a deep inner transformation.

As she is about to become a postulating, Aurore is referred to secular life – a new shock, which she lives as an abandonment, this time from God. She then oscillates between destructive pleasures and the quest for meaning.

The rhythm of the one -hour room is well kept thanks to the alternation between choreographed scenes, moments of calm and aside. The sound creation and the play of light, sober but evocative, fully participate in immersion. By refusing to deliver a frozen conclusion, Aurora in the night Invites the spectator to prolong the story beyond the curtain. An approach assumed by the two actresses, for whom hope remains a founding value – and which they will carry high this summer in Avignon.