While she must inevitably pack up, forced to leave the apartment where she has lived so long, Ms. Ellefson transports the audience on a touching journey through time. In her cute little living room, objects come to life, retracing the woman she was, the things she accomplished in her life, and the love she had for her family. A multitude of ingenious processes and a staging which combines choreography and manipulation paint an intimate portrait of this elderly woman.
A magical, human daily life, both very heartbreaking and very funny.
A touching, sensitive and contemporary piece.
An ode to life, wisdom and women.
With a simple, but very effective staging, the production takes us into Eva’s little funny moments, as well as into her past. How could we not become attached, welcomed into the bubble, into the intimacy of a lady so endearing, so human?
We laughed a few times in her company. And we smile. A lot. Almost all the time, my cheeks hurt.
And it is perhaps precisely because of this beautiful connection, which insinuates itself through a stage choreography, that we come to worry about Eva, when the bad news is heard, on the answering machine.
Sometimes it’s difficult to hold back your tears…
There is something universal about life. Something that makes us smile, and cry. And which makes us say that we are all young after all. It’s just that some have been there for longer.
Marc-Antoine Côté, Le Quotidien Newspaper
A play that I really appreciated, a beautiful and very gentle look at old age through these small everyday gestures, also through the major changes which are associated with this stage of life.
It’s a solo by Vicky Côté who perform this for us with a lot of agility, with a lot of kindness and sensitivity as well.
Julie Larouche, Radio-Canada
Creation, direction, scenography, acting
Vicky Côté
Assistant
Christine Rivest-Hénault
Light
Mathieu Marcil
Sound
Stéphane Boivin
Advisors
Denys Lefebvre, Diane Loiselle
Photo credit
Sophie Gagnon-Bergeron
