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Amélie Prévost

Amélie Prévost

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Author and comedian Amélie Prévost has created several
performance poetry shows, including the duo Fol ouvrage - Torcher des paillettes with Queen Ka, and the solo show Kamikaze du vendredi. She has published six books, including the poetry collection Osti d'pain blanc (L’Hexagone, 2023), which was a finalist for the CoPo prize for high school students. She won the World Cup of Slam Poetry in Paris in 2016. More recently, La Belle-mère / The Stepmother written in French and English with Rachel McCrum, was published by Éditions de l’Hexagone in 2024.

Belle-mère (La)/ Stepmother (The)

La Belle-mère / The Stepmother examine les complexités relationnelles, les responsabilités et les libertés propres à un rôle qui est aussi l'un des archétypes les plus malmenés par l'imaginaire occidental. Cette relecture intime prend la forme d'une suite de poèmes narratifs composés à quatre mains, en français et anglais, pour la lecture et pour la scène. La Belle-mère / The Stepmother examines the relational complexities, responsibilities and freedoms inherent in a role that is also among the most maligned archetypes in Western imagination. This intimate re-reading takes the form of a series of narrative poems co-written in French and English, for the page and for the stage.
21.95 $
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03
May 2026

La Belle-mère / The Stepmother

In the aftermath of a crisis within her blended family, a stepmother weighs up her choices, past, present, and future. Fragment by fragment, she pieces together her story, with the honesty of a woman with everything to lose and everything to gain. Using words as a mirror, she tries to see herself as she is, not in the eyes of the society around her, but in the eyes of those who love her and who she loves.

La belle-mère / The Stepmother offers a complete re-reading of the stepmother archetype, a subject of the collective Western imagination for centuries. The challenges, duties, responsibilities, stakes, and freedoms of the role are weighed and analyzed without complacency, in this dynamic suite of narrative poems. The show will be performed in French, with English subtitles, by the co-authors themselves, Amélie Prévost and Rachel McCrum.

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