What does the little hairdresser say?
We are in Chartres in 1944. The war ends in the Giraud family in which we have always been hairdressers. There’s the women’s salon, run by Marie, a dapper little sixty-something. And then there is the salon for men, which was run by Marie’s husband, but he died, deported on denunciation.
Marie has two sons, whom she loves above all else, Jean and Pierre, to whom she is very, very close.
Pierre has only one passion, painting. And yet, he will take over the “men’s” part of the family hairdressing salon. Except that her mother will send her a few clients for anything other than hairdressing.
You are obviously not told what it is, and it is not what you are thinking.
A delicate, deep, serious story
Behind the light decor evoked, in fact, there is question of a subject that is close to our hearts: it is a question of collaboration and resistance. It is a question of “expeditious justice after the war”, and it is above all a question of women, the main victims of this terrible exercise which consists in taking revenge for the suffering endured. Question of the “shaved” woman.
Jean-Philippe Daguerre, sure value of the theater
The author of Le Petit Coiffeur is already known for having written Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, recently adapted for the cinema and awarded at the Sarlat film festival.
I lived in Périgueux when I was young. I played in Bergerac, already with Adieu Monsieur Haffmann and from time to time I come on vacation in the area. It’s a department that I love. You have to be a bit stupid not to like Périgord.
BONUS AUDIO: Charlotte Matzneff plays the girl who will change everything
– Current Theater Workshop