Sens Tanger 2009 English Introduction

“Meaning” By Graziella Boggiano A TRACES Asbl production Avenue de Lévis Mirepoix 11 1090 Brussels, Belgium Mobile telephone: +32-486/960.869 Fixed telephone: +32-2-720.71.20 Email: [email protected]

With Graziella Boggiano

Directed by:

Sets by:

Emmanuel Texeraud

Yves Fievé Graziella Boggiano

The Play “Meaning”

A human being, a woman among many, a mother who decides to speak, to break that silence that is suffocating her. She asks for nothing; she simply wants to tell, to share part of her story. A frantic journey in the maze of her thoughts ensues, where there is no time for reality, as she cuts, pastes and reorganises her remembrances to give them meaning.

An indefinite space, without walls, without references. The woman lets us peek into one of her dreams. She is treacherously accused of having left… a woman does not leave the marital home; she does not abandon her children. But did she really abandon them? Her daughter understood that freedom meant having to dash old family ghosts. She will force her mother, by deed, to react, to awake from old conditioning, to rediscover her wild nature, her inner, deepest being. But in this vast termitarium that is society, no one cares about value problems. So there are few if any specialised professionals capable of helping this woman. They have lost the symbolic reason of their craft. The language is no longer in the service of people. The termitarium has far too many levels. Information no longer passes. After this long descent, twenty thousand leagues below her flesh, this woman will resurface, quietly, to stop her story… She will no longer be afraid to live.

“Meaning” A moving cry for democracy, interpreted magnificently by Graziella Boggiano who plays “Meaning,” speaks about meaning with her splendid gift of presence characteristic of the actress. A particularly powerful world of a woman, “Meaning” hits every target and traces a “background history of the female condition in everyday life, the indecency of which is still rampant down to the present day.” The voice, penetrating and borne fully on a deep breath serves as a testimonial for Graziella Boggiano, ever so pertinent and with a rarely rivalled emotional charge, backed by pure, superbly concise sets. Whereas “Meaning” is unanimously hailed by women for finally breaking overbearing silence, the work is nonetheless disturbing with an expression of a “certain virility…” A powerful show to be brought within reach of every ear!