In the Marseille trilogypeople talk about it often. However, we never see her. But what is this mysterious Pagnolesque creature? It's Zoe, Honorine's sister, who serves as a foil and explanation all the time in Marius, César et Fanny “, locates Gilles Ascaride, author and director of a ” soliloquy » eponym embodied by Marie Fabre, around this figure supposedly symbol of family dishonor, which takes up residence on Saturday November 16 at the Toursky Theater. “ I'm interested in people we don't care about », affirms this trained anthropologist, still surprised “ to have been the first » to embark on such a literary adventure. After having “ put the trilogy through a sieve » and collected the words about Zoé, he wrote her story. “ After my sister Zoé, all we needed was a little bastard », screams, in Pagnol's work, Honorine to Fanny, after the discovery of the affair between her daughter and Marius. It must be said that her greatest fear is that her offspring will follow in the footsteps of her sister who worked in a match factory, before being ostracized from the family for having allowed herself to be seduced by a Spanish sailor. Here Zoé has become the symbol of so-called dissolute morals, while she is delivered by Pagnol to silence. It didn't take much for Gilles Ascaride to imagine his story and finally give him a voice.
Funny and cruel is the Marseille trilogy. Big mouth style that characterizes our city, a perilous but effective balance that Gilles Ascaride also hopes to provide. In the director's mind, Zoé is an isolated old woman, except for her cat Pompon in whom she confides, who lives in an apartment in La Plaine in the 1950s. She learns of the death of her sister Honorine. “ She receives an announcement for her funeral but is faced with the dilemma of whether to go or not. », driven by the pain but also the resentment she has for him. If Pagnol attached to him the image of a moral fault, in particular to please the times and satisfy his greed for success, Gilles Ascaride establishes him as a feminist figure, inspired among others by one of his own aunts. “ A very beautiful woman and orchestral singer. Everyone was pinching their noses because from the age of 16, she threw her hat over the windmills, before divorcing three times. », image this cheeky but no less lucid author: “ These women were simply demanding that they be left alone. To live their lives as they wanted without asking for the consent of those around them. Unlike Pagnol's characters, I wanted to show that what ruins everyone is this fucking honor. » As Caesar said to Marius, “ honor is like matches, it only serves once ».
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