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“Can a story begin with mourning? Because if birth is the beginning of a life, maybe death is the beginning of a fiction.”
Camille is 22 when she moves to Montreal. Her grandmother Pauline was 91 when she entered the CHSLD. At the same time, each of them is experiencing uprooting, a loss of bearings. Prompted by an intuition, Camille records her visits and collects Pauline’s words. For nearly four years, the two women tame the inevitable together, in the rhythm of their daily lives, forgetting, crumbling and reuniting.
After a poignant podcast entitled Quelqu’une d’immortelle, Camille Paré-Poirier adapts for the stage these exchanges between two beings so deeply united, the cornerstone of a network of questions and dialogues between generations. The creator questions the notion of care and the different, sometimes contradictory, experiences of being a caregiver. Pauline’s words and voice continue to live on, thanks to her intimate recordings. And documentary material ironically becomes a tool of fiction.
