After Fight the why-why, a “big JE T’AIME with human complexity”, published in 2021, the prolific and talented Rébecca Déraspe sees another of her texts published by Ta Mère. With The ICES, a play created at La Licorne in 2022 in a staging by Maryse Lapierre, the author who graduated from the National School in 2010 bravely tackles the culture of rape. Skillfully crossing stories and eras, dramas and families, voices and territories, Déraspe approaches “the great thaw”, the emergence of truth, considering the ins and outs, the intellectual and psychological aspect, the moral as well as the sensitive dimension. In the rush to say, there is certainly here and there a few excesses of didacticism, or else a few superfluous jokes, but, just as in St. Lawrence Girlswhich has just left the poster of the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, audacity dominates, rhythm wins, sorority triumphs and poetry seizes.
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