DÉESSES, je me maquille pour ne pas pleurer

Alone on stage, Héloïse Desrivières presents an intimate, autobiographical epic. Somewhere between the grotesque and the sublime, the digital and the dreamlike: a portrait of a woman prepared to go to great lengths to reclaim a true image of herself. A young single mum, a student struggling to make ends meet… and a beauty influencer! From her bathroom, Astrid wraps herself in cling film and addresses her community of ‘flowers’, extolling the virtues of products named after goddesses. The surest way to reclaim a body in freefall after childbirth? A tale of self-rediscovery, brimming with humour and poetry, *Déesses* unfolds over the course of a magical, nocturnal ritual. Taking us from a simple bath to the enchanted realm of a forest worthy of Tolkien, Astrid tells her story candidly, questions the notion of beauty and, along the way, transforms herself into a ‘she-wolf with horns of mist’ cloaked in a spectacular dress of mussel shells… A liberating escape!