Coming home from school one evening, Valentina finds a note on the table. It has been written in French by the doctor treating her mother, who – however – does not speak the language. It needs to be translated. Valentina is there, facing her mother, with an unspeakable truth on the tip of her tongue: news that could break her heart and blow up their lives... The truth is either to be imposed or hidden; sought out or stifled. This is the question at the heart of the new creation, a poetic contemporary fable by Caroline Guiela Nguyen.
«I wanted to focus on the figure of the interpreter», explains the French-Vietnamese director, who previously brought FRATERNITÉ, Conte fantastique, SAIGON and the co-production LACRIMA to the Piccolo, «because I have always believed that it was a profession that says much about the contemporary world and its current geography. It is a gesture that I see as extremely related to theatre, which also sees the translation of the words of others. One finds oneself at the centre of a conversation, while also having to know when to cancel. My own family situation has placed me in the position of an interpreter who has to build a bridge between myself and the language that my mother chose not to pass on to me».

Recommended for audiences aged 10 and over

Show in French and Romanian with Italian and English surtitles. Please note that surtitles are not visible from rows 1 to 4 in the stalls