A young actress tries to create a show about Maria Schneider. In this one-woman show staged as an open rehearsal, she lays out the difficulties she faces. With plenty of humor, awkwardness and self-mockery, Marilou Aussilloux gets things wrong, fails spectacularly, and sometimes feels like giving up.

Only Like Maria

La Manufacture

It seems to me, and I say this with regret, that there is still a need to reiterate the whys and wherefores of theatre. And by theatre I mean the only one I know, the one that is not content to repeat the past like a relic, the one that does not evaluate its existence with the applause meter, as if it were some TV format. Theatre cannot and must not reason around the perception of its own approval or hide behind the search for easy consensus. This would mean abdicating its social purpose. Its raison d'être lies not in approval, but in necessity. Those who, like me, have put their lives in the hands of the theatre suffer from seeing their love treated superficially, reduced to entertainment or, again, voluntarily closed to ever smaller niches of the public, as if it were not enough for themselves. As if, in this new century and in this new millennium, it was essential to re-evaluate the power of this art at all costs, forgetting that it is one of the few remaining instruments capable of keeping alive and nourishing the collective consciousness.

Nicolas Bovey

Events

Upcoming events

8 - 16 May, 2027

Amleto · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Past events

Jul 13, 2026

Only Like Maria · La Manufacture

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