Broth for Two

In 2014, Malian Toumani Kouyaté was urgently summoned to his native country to hear his grandfather tell his final story. Feeling death approaching, the experienced man decided to pass on the tradition.

In three sleepless nights, Henrietta experiences a psychotic crisis, in which her self becomes detached from her body. We do not speak of madness, but of a situation out of control. In three acts, the denial of self, the immobility of the body and the mind-body separation are addressed through visual metaphors. These sensations conclude in Henrietta's delirium: the outside and inside of her house are mixed, there are shadows that haunt her and she finally falls into a bottomless spiral.