Titania's Tears

Concept and production Pierandré Boo
Performed by Greta Gratos Directed by Michel Albasin iLighting design Danielle Milovic Sound universe Michel Zürcher Costume Valentine Savary Make-up – hair by Arnaud Buchs Photographs by Isabelle Meister Video recording by Séverine Barde Administration Ars Longa Agency
Sissi, imperative!
It is not what you think. Greta Gratos flushes out Titania behind the ingénue Sissi and reveals the admirable figure of a woman in love with justice and freedom. Intense and... revolutionary!
"I write to kill this ridiculous world." However, it was he who had the last word, in September 1898, not far from the Beau-Rivage hotel in Geneva. Elisabeth of Wittelsbach collapsed but her ghost was already rising up, which, decades later, would come to haunt Pierandré Boo. The latter, after spending 30 years maturing his project, undoes the empress of her majestic outfit to help her put on an elegant black dress and become Titania in the guise of Greta Gratos. An outfit more in line with the writings of a woman who, although belonging to a world of privileges, questions her time and points out its excesses with sagacity. She does so with a spirited writing, carrying in her flow all the naughty imagery with which cinema has weighed her down. Alone on stage, Titania-Greta masterfully appropriates this testimony of great modernity that announces current feminist, ecological and political struggles. By exhuming these texts, which have retained all their force, Pierandré Boo breaks the icon to extract the bold and touching figure of an empress who is less a blue flower than a red carnation.