As Yvette Théraulaz herself says, she has been working as an actress and singer with wonder and enthusiasm for 65 years. A true icon of the French-speaking Swiss stage, she is today celebrating her 80th birthday on stage with Huitante, in which she looks back on the path she has followed for so many years. Because starting from one’s own experience to speak of the world and its changes is often the best way to be most accurate. Most truthful.
From her humble childhood to her years in Paris, via her training at the École d’Art Dramatique, then the 1970s and the rise of the feminist movements, not to mention the shows, songs and texts she has written over the years, Yvette Théraulaz shares with us everything that makes up a full life, with its highs, its lows, its defining moments, but also its little everyday things. On stage, she unfolds not only the life of an artist, but also that of a mother, a woman and a lover. And a citizen. By drawing parallels between the different facets of her life and the expectations placed on women, alongside the history of their struggles for rights, she presents a theatrical and musical autobiography in the form of a tribute to the theatre, to beauty, and to the people who have lit up her path.