Pascale Platel - MOM

With her characteristic storytelling pleasure and flamboyant presence, Platel weaves anecdotes, memories and imagination into a sublime ode to motherly love: ‘MAMA’, the road movie, a tragicomic ride with my mother, Andrée Huysman, along forgotten streets, wild aunts, big feet and even bigger soul-searching. She didn't like the spotlights, but I am now pulling her, with gentle force and much love, to the center of the stage. Between champagne and brown bread with sugar, swimming naked and Wagner, mother and daughter collide with everything that was never spoken about love, shame, growing old and saying goodbye. Pascale makes you laugh and touches you without becoming too sentimental. She asks universal questions about who we are, where we come from and how we continue to live with what remains behind. With ‘MAMA’ she shows herself at her most personal, without sparing herself or her audience, but always with a wink.