Root

Jeanne is a middle school student. Apart from her friend Isa, she speaks little and cultivates her differences from the young people her age. Uncomfortable in her own skin, she is at odds with the adult world she is discovering. A dull anger simmers inside her against her teachers who want to make her come out of her shell, against her family whose legacy she believes she suffers like a curse. She dreams of only one thing: to get away from here. And yet, an unexpected discovery will turn her life upside down...

In the form of a narrative spanning eras and characters, punctuated by the vibrant and earthy songs of Titouan Billon, the play embraces the question of family, cultural and social origins, the need and the difficulties of emancipating oneself from them and/or accepting them. It is also a story of adolescence, that period of life when we begin to seriously question who we are and who we would like to be. An enigma that often takes a lifetime to solve.