23April2026

Show: Blanche

The Thursday 23 April

Théâtre et Cinéma Le Bordeau 18 rue de Genève 01630 Saint-Genis-Pouilly

Blanche was born on a winter morning, and the light streaming through the bedroom shutters on 24 December 1922 would give her her name.

Today she is getting on in years, at an age when one finds oneself alone in a retirement home, with a faltering memory. Tonight, she is standing before us as part of an intergenerational project. Blanche cooks us a soup, a seasonal soup, and takes the opportunity to share her recipe for life. Suddenly, memories come flooding back: those of her childhood on the farm, her loves, her emancipation in Paris…

Almost like a human and moving 20th-century, the show unfolds before our eyes, tracing the thread of a life tinged with rural life, history, cultures and music. From her birth to her last breath, snippets and fragments of an existence reach us and tell us an odyssey. That of life…

Blanche – Cie Hecho en Casa
Written by: Mélanie Viñolo
Directed by: Hervé Estebeteguy
With: Camille Duchesne, Diane Lefébure, Mélanie Viñolo, & Arthur Pérot
Lighting design: Julien Delignières
Sound design: Mathias Goyheneche
Set design: L’Atelier MOA
Visual artist: Annie Onchalo
Distribution: Jean-Yves Ostro
Administration and communication: Chloé Habasque
Photo credits: Guy Labadens and Chloé Habasque