Muzzled for thirty years, Camille Claudel finds her voice at the Théâtre des Osses in Givisiez

Published on December 19, 2024 at 9:22 p.m. / Modified on December 20, 2024 at 06:38.

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They were meant to never part. Camille loved Paul, her four-year-old younger brother. Between them, the complicity was a Mohicans pact. Nothing could alter it. Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was 14 years old in 1878 and she drew the face of her Paul. In 1881, she immortalized her childhood in a plaster cast. He was delighted by Arthur Rimbaud and soon people would compare him to him. These two gifted people could not imagine the tragedy that would break her, which would tear him apart. At the Théâtre des Osses in Givisiez until Sunday, Anne Schwaller stitches together the threads of this passion in Claudel(s), a show as delicate as it is personal carried by the actors Céline Cesa and Yann Pugin.

How can we tell the story of the fall of Camille, this talented sculptor, that day in March 1913, when white coats took her from her apartment on the Quai de Bourbon in Paris, where she was placed, at the request of her mother, in the Ville-Evrard hospital in Neuilly-sur-Marne? How can we restore thirty years of imprisonment in the Montdevergues asylum, in Montfavet, one of the districts of Avignon? As a loving reader, Anne Schwaller has chosen 16 letters from the artist, so many pleas, attempts to escape the straitjacket. So that Paul could also speak, she called back to the light My sister Camillethis text that he wrote in 1951. He is 83 years old, he is an academician covered with laurels, and Camille has been dead for eight years.

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