The call of the mutants

Alone on stage, Lucile Charnier starts from an intimate territory: a Jura childhood where people dance and sing, where meals are shared, but where people talk little to each other. People laugh, protect, love, and keep silent. On stage, she summons a family where secrets and unsaid things surrounding illness reign. From this sensitive material and her work in art and health around singing in oncology at Institut Bordet, she weaves a vibrant autofiction, where the voices of the patients met mingle with family memories and Jura folklore. They talk about silenced love, care, the protection of individuals within the family, and transformative bereavement. One learns to look at illness with gentleness. One makes cancer flirt with beauty and joy.