Je meurs de ne pas mourir

Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spain's great mystical icon, embraces her desire, her fire and her freedom. What if Saint Teresa of Ávila returned to Earth today and discovered, astonished, that her remains had been scattered as relics around the world? Once she has regained her senses and reassembled her body, she roams Spain, navigating marginality, new mystical revelations, the beginnings of a stand-up career and electronic music. Paco Bezerra's text resonates particularly strongly today. Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spain's great mystical icon, embraces her desire, her fire and her freedom. She brushes off her father, who wants to marry her off, and invents a form of absolute resurrection. Like Isis, who finds the pieces of Osiris scattered to the four winds and brings him back to life, Teresa recreates herself and literally searches the world for her limbs and her identity. From this initiatory journey she will be reborn new and pioneering, recreating the possibility of a human community. After lending her features to Sarah Bernhardt and Gisèle Halimi, Estelle Meyer now embodies another flamboyant figure, a feminist ahead of her time. Performed by Estelle Meyer Directed and designed by Aurélia Lüscher