Belle-mère (La)/ Stepmother (The)
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.
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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.