How to live after the irreparable? One evening in Houston, Michaël Ellis killed Matias after a futile altercation. We will not see him: doomed, he wanders on a Texas death row. But it is around this crushing absence that the intrigue is tied. It manifests itself to Anne, a journalist living in the United States and now a widow, in the form of a letter brought by a volunteer from an association working for restorative justice – still little known in France, it aims to create a dialogue between victim and guilty to, beyond the sentences handed down, extinguish resentments.
It is difficult to advance further in the unveiling of this piece which also involves Alex, an ambitious young business lawyer and brother of the victim, and Grace, legal counsel for the association, without spoiling the pleasure of discovering the intrigue as dense as it is captivating “Last letter”.
After the superb “The Passengers of Dawn”, on spirituality in the face of death, this new creation by Violaine Arsac retains the ingredients that make the flavor of the popular and demanding pieces of the Atelier Théâtre Actuel: a drumming rhythm, engaging dialogues and great skill in setting the scene. stage, all in the service of a subject as necessary as it is profound.
“I have the impression that this condemnation does not appease me”, Anna slips, like a premonition of this story which will bring the characters to grips with the fate of fate, the possibility of forgiveness and the quest for justice that each case redefines in its own way.
Théâtre Actuel, until July 31 (break on the 26th), at 4.35pm (duration: 1h25 min), 15 to 22 euros, reservations on 04 65 87 38 98 and www.theatre-actuel-avignon.com
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