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Maurice Dancause, hard-working, brilliant economist and civil servant, wakes up one morning and collapses. STROKE. Nine days in a coma, four years of rehabilitation. Since then, everything has changed: his brain, his tastes, his sensibility, even his personality. And in the background, there’s aphasia, the daily struggle to find words. How can we talk to the world around us about love, politics, religion or even quantum physics when we have so little access to speech?
Fascinated by this luminous story of reconstruction and resilience, author and actress Anne-Marie Olivier slips into the shoes of this man with an incandescent spirit. Maurice’s words are full, overflowing, and he himself longs to communicate with the world. Every evening, he needs a spectator to bring his story to its conclusion. “Maurice” is a singular dramaturgical experiment inspired by an incredible life story, a moving performance that reinvents language to make it its own.
