Le vent respire pour toi is not a text about Colette's life. It's a work of fiction. It's a declaration of love, a game by Yergo. What would happen, he wondered, if Colette lived in Montreal in 2023?
Colette is Western literature's first queer superstar. Her series of novels featuring Claudine invented a new genre according to Cocteau, culminating in La retraite sentimentale. Colette's ability to reinvent herself is constant. After breaking up with her first husband, Willy, she took up gymnastics, mime lessons and stage shows. She causes a scandal at the Moulin Rouge, one breast bared, when she kisses her lover Missy on stage. The police intervene. These years are recounted in the masterpieces L'Envers du Music-hall and La Vagabonde. While she shares her friend Proust's fascination with Sodom and Gomorrah, her eroticism goes beyond human passions. Rather, it's a constant presence in the world that is honed in all her books, from Le Pur et l'impur, Sido and Les Vrilles de la vigne to L'Étoile Vesper. Her writing is constantly permeated by an art de vivre that resonates "more than ever with our times".
Colette will be here in Brome Lake, 150 years after her birth. For one evening, embodied by Macha Limonchik. Eternally free and scandalous. With all her modern heritage.
Original idea, text and choice of music: Yergo
Reading: Macha Limonchik
Lighting: Martin Sirois
Produced by FIL 2023
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Le vent respire pour toi
Colette à Montréal
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