A Love Suprême

Without warning. Bianca is in shock. She must immediately pack up her things, tossed out after a career of 32 years. She tries to understand, but she knows that the new generation is pushing her out. Bianca is a stripper. Or at least she used to be …

Times are hard, as they say: employers are even harder. Facing competition from the digital world, Bianca is no longer profitable. It’s a tough battle to grow old, and to accept age with grace. Filmmaker, actor and playwright, Xavier Durringer has known Nadia Fabrizio for many years. He wrote for her this solo stage piece, which she performs superbly, taking us through three decades of Bianca’s story in the mythic parts of the capital city by night. Against a background that shows the accelerated disappearance of certain popular aspects of Paris, where the nature of misery itself is turned inside out, the stripper now out on the street measures how much the world around her has changed, while watching the dryer spin at a local laundromat. ... An uncompromising portrait of a woman that is nonetheless softened by touches of humour, given that, in the words of Dominique Pitoiset, "the urgency that provides the sudden vision of the precipice can also be quite funny".

Text Xavier Durringer
Staging Dominique Pitoiset

With Nadia Fabrizio

Lighting Christophe Pitoiset
Sound Bertrand Lechat, Emmanuel Leonard
Video Emmanuelle Vié Le Sage
Wigs and makeup Cecile Kretschmar

 A Love Suprême by Xavier Durringer
is published by Editions Theâtrales.