Assedegats

Who hasn't woken up with the void inside? With an irrepressible desire to be free and to live convinced that love and beauty can absolutely overcome all horrors. With the conviction that it is necessary to leave behind the suffocating routines and the absurd rules, the insignificant prosperity and the sad distance. Who does not hope to one day be reunited with the abandoned childhood? Where the will and the surprise and the love and the rejection and the sleep and the euphoria were so intense that the world and life were one and the same, and they were worth it.

Wajdi Mouawad takes us this time to the core of adolescence, in the transit between childhood that must be left behind and adulthood that does not want to be assumed. Thirsty for life, wanting to touch infinity with the palm of their hand and fit it inside, Murdoch, Norvège and Boon cross their paths where beauty and absurdity play out in a pulse of their survival. Murdoch wakes up one morning determined to verbally vomit all the anger he accumulates in front of a world in which he finds no meaning or hope. Norvège has locked herself in her room for days and does not want to come out or is unable to do so. Boon dreams of being a writer and growing the beauty of this world.

Fifteen years later, Boon, turned forensic anthropologist, recognizes Murdoch's body, which had mysteriously disappeared, in some remains found at the bottom of the Saint Laurent River. This leads him to recall his adolescence and his abandoned dreams. And discover that Murdoch and Norvège's insatiable thirst for meaning and beauty ends up uniting them forever, in a surprising way, crossing the boundaries between reality and fiction. This discovery re-opens the vital cry of adolescence, too often buried despite the time we have to live. Who hasn't woken up with the void inside? And what has he done?

La perla 29 production with the collaboration of the Barcelona Greek festival 2020