ARCHIVES 2003 / Crise de Nerfs - Parlez-moi d'amour - (Nervous Breakdown - Tell Me About Love-)

A few square metres, a hospital room outlined by rows of spectators, a nursery bed, an actress-cum-underwater diver accompanied by a choir sings gentle discouragement and a joyful aspiration to be in the world. Under a diving suit, the ideal protection from internal and external aggression, an ultra-sensitive person is buffeted Linked to her bed by a vital pipe, an umbilical cord in which sounds, air and fluid circulates, this deep-sea diver tells the story of the world he has lost and of the one which today, he cannot contemplate.Crise de Nerfs – Parlez-moi d'amour – pitches the perpetual struggle of an existence and the insatiable need for words of love. Writer, stage designer and director, this is an elegy by Jean Lambert-wild accompanied by the music of Jean-Luc Therminarias. This play forms part of the mutual path these two travellers have been following since Splendeur et Lassitude du Capitaine Marion Déperrier, Drumlike, Orgia and more recently Spaghetti's Club. “I cultivate the humour of despair,” says Jean Lambert-wild. “Crossing this valley of tears in a diving suit is one good way of surviving...”