Consent: Vanessa Springora’s book adapted into a powerful play

In 2020, Vanessa Springora released a book like uplifting than upsetting and necessary. Two and a half years later, his testimony has lost none of its own power and sound importance in a society still afflicted by paedocriminality.

An adaptation with Ludivine Sagnier

To continue convey the voice of its authortransposed by director Sébastien Davis Consent in a comedy. The testimony and emotions of Vanessa Springora inhabits this adaptation through the performance of the actress Ludivine Sagnier. The latter embodies “V” when she is a child, a teenager and then an adult, three stages recounted in the original autobiographical novel.

impunity by Gabriel Matzneff, aged 50 years old when Vanessa Springora had some 14, the absence parents, complacency and silence of the literary world… All these elements that made reading the Consent Self uplifting and uplifting are transposed in this stage adaptation.

Bringing Vanessa Springora’s voice to the stage

On stage there is a huge translucent white screen behind which the actress disappears from time to time, as if to represent the problem in which the minor victim of the influence of child offender. Director Sébastien Davis explains it in To chat :

“It seemed necessary to create two spaces on stage. Behind this layerthis membrane, I wanted to represent baby vanessawhen it is lost, in the grip and cannot see clearly. No one around her uses common sense. She is imprisoned. These sensations are reflected on her in the form of physical pain. Behind the screen, his body rebels. »

Consent it is to be discovered from 21st to 30th November at the Municipal Theater Parisfrom from 13 to 15 December at the Château Rouge – Affiliated internship of AnnemasseAnd From 4 to 7 January 2023 at the Croix Rousse Theater of Lyon.

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