Description
Alone on Stage? A Theatrical Road Movie
(The Trials and Tribulations of a Western Woman in Search of Her Identity)
The Théâtre de Poche’s Review:
A wonderful ode to the freedom to be oneself.
Pauline Caupenne takes us on a journey where humor, dance, theater, and cinema come together with joyful freedom. Behind the comical situations and unlikely encounters, the portrait of a young woman gradually emerges—one who stops trying to live up to others’ expectations and finally learns to be true to herself. We laugh, we’re moved, and we let ourselves be carried away by a luminous, generous, and intensely vivid adventure.
Sometimes you have to go very far to find yourself
Leave everything behind to become an actress in India? The trials and tribulations of a Western woman in search of her identity.
Pauline, 20, decides to move to India to find meaning in her life. Once there, she accidentally becomes a Bollywood actress! The chance of a lifetime? Yes, but… Between wonder, spiritual wanderings, and disillusionment, she discovers that exile isn’t enough to reinvent herself.
A funny and offbeat semi-autobiographical tale that celebrates the lost, the anxious, and those going in circles…
Press excerpt: It took a lot of guts and sheer determination to leave her studies, her parents, and her country behind and move to India at age 20. That’s exactly what actress Pauline Caupenne dared to do twenty years ago, and here she recounts and dances her “strange destiny” with humor, grace, and philosophy. With sensitivity and imagination, she describes a wild journey and a culture that is largely unfamiliar to us. A guaranteed journey? TELERAMA? F.P.
