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Sisters carry within their chests ravaged and ravaging suns,
yet unyielding in the face of the violence of reality.
Reality means drugs and the street. It's about getting high and being cast out.
The aim is to bring the margins to the center—without exploiting misery or tears.
ÉPUISER LES SOLEILS navigates between personal archives, theatre,
and performance.Héloïse Ravet seeks to write through notions of transition,
invisibility, and embodiment.
Written and directed by Héloïse Ravet With Zoé Lejeune, Léa Quinsac & Héloïse Ravet Light design Giacomo Gorini Sound creation Tomas Mancini Director's assistant Louisa Billon Dramaturgy Zoé Lejeune, Léa Quinsac & Héloïse Ravet Video Gerardo Ramos Visual Héloïse Ravet / Gerardo Ramos Photography Alice Piemme - AML
Production Saintes Patronnes x BLOOM Project Executive production Théâtre Les Tanneurs Co-production Théâtre les Tanneurs, Kinneksbond - Centre Culturel Mamer, (in progress) With the help of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Direction du Théâtre - Bourse de recherche Supported by Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Les Ballastières, Théâtre Océan nord, (in progress)
In the summer of 2024, my sister disappeared again.
I looked for her for a long time in the streets of Marseille, but I never found her.
She had fallen into crack addiction for several months — she had slipped into the city.
In September, La Timone hospital called my family and me. She was in intensive care there — she had suffered a very violent assault, in the streets of Marseille, one night. That’s how we found her again.
My sister has been addicted to drugs for over 25 years. I’ve never known how to talk about it. There is very little I understand about her. These three things — her endless disappearances, the impossibility of speaking about it, and my lack of understanding of all this — are what drive me today to make theatre about her, with her.
Not to understand. But to listen to her — to listen to her mystery, and to what her life tells us.
I am a theatre director, and I have decided to take the stage, to make my sister’s voice heard.
With two actresses and myself, we work through Yolande’s dreams, her violence, her fantasies, her many lives — to dismantle the stubborn idea that a life lived in addiction is a life that’s been lost.
My sister is Alive — and every night, that truth explodes in our faces.
AGENDA
14/04/2026
-Work in progress- Festival Guerrière, Mars - Mons arts de la scène (Be)