Actor

With this adaptation of Jonas Gardell's bestselling novel Never Wipe A Tear Without Gloves , We Are Here is creating its largest production to date. With around fifteen performers on stage, this show will both delight and upset you at the same time. It is both a wonderful story of love, friendship and solidarity, but also the story of a disease that has wreaked terrible havoc and marked an entire community.

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Never Wipe A Tear Without Gloves

Place des Arts

Le Trident

Without a safety net, the brash actress turns toward us: Is there a volunteer in the audience? Who will step out of their reassuringly anonymous seat to help reconstruct the true story of the courageous survivor of a stroke? An hour and a quarter of pure theatrical vertigo, both in form and narrative.  

With fearsome accuracy, the breathtaking Anne-Marie Olivier steps into the shoes of Maurice Dancause, an economist and civil servant who, at thirty-three years old, suffered a stroke and spent nine days in a coma, waking up a total stranger to himself. Everything he had taken for granted, from speaking to eating and holding a spoon, had to be relearned. The set design accurately recreates the interviews that Anne-Marie held with this miraculously self-cured man. And every night, the show transforms and takes on new life with a conversation partner chosen at random from the crowd. 

Olivier Arteau

Actor

Events

Upcoming events

20 - 22 Mar, 2025

Maurice · National Arts Centre

Past events

Mar 7 - Dec 16, 2023

Never Wipe A Tear Without Gloves · Nous sommes ici

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