Using a “summer” comedy to examine the ravages of patriarchy in a rigorous way, without an ounce of didacticism, is the feat that Rébecca Déraspe accomplishes with Fanny. By communicating her legendary frankness to her characters, by combining derision and sensitivity, a thirst for justice and a visceral need to celebrate until the end of the night, the author provokes an encounter between Fanny, in her mid-fifties, and Alice, in her twenties, two women who will transform each other, metamorphose themselves in the most moving and hilarious way possible. The fish, who observes the action from his aquarium, will say philosophically: “It gets into you, life, real life. It makes all sorts of things explode, when you let it be complete, when you accept that it is different, when you agree to make it immense, up to what it is to “be alive”. “The play, which reconciles us with the present and allows us to hope for the best for the future, is on show at the Théâtre du Bic until August 17, then at the Théâtre Léonard-Saint-Laurent (Sherbrooke) in October.
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