The Fear

Through a wacky theatrical lecture, the actress Léna Rossetti highlights and brings into play different facets of fear, between clichés and truths. The lecturer talks to us about the body: the heart rate accelerating, breathing blocking, pupils dilating. She mimes the adrenaline rush, the urge to flee, the uncontrolled start. She attempts to explain the mechanisms of this emotion, the common tropes used to evoke terror in art, in cinema, in fairy tales, and untangles what happens in our brain and our body when we are afraid. She also evokes, with a series of comic examples, the anxieties of spectators who are in a relationship of great proximity: sometimes plunged into the dark, sometimes questioned, invited to sing... This short comedy laughs at the codes of horror while using them subtly.