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Date(s) - 27/03/2024
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Performance based on “J’ai Saigné” an autobiographical text by Blaise Cendrars.
Date: 27 March, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm onwards
Venue:: Alliance Française de Delhi
Open to all | No registration
Play in French | Subtitles in English
Directed by Jean-Yves Ruf and Jean-Christophe Cochard
Performance by Jean-Yves Ruf
About the play:
Recounting the 3 weeks of convalescence he spent at the Evêché de Sainte-Croix, in Châlons-en-Champagne, following the amputation of his right arm, lost on the Eastern Front in September 1915. The nurse-major, Madame Adrienne, asked Cendrars to share a room with some of the wounded, so that he could tell them stories and lift their spirits. Thus restored to his function as a writer, he heals himself by healing others. It’s a text about suffering, but also about resilience, empathy and healing.