MATERNITÀ

In Maternità (Maternity), based on the short story by Sheila Heti, a woman wonders, before the audience, sitting in front of her, what it is that keeps her from bringing a child into the world. This is not a monologue, but a strange kind of dialogue, suspended between an assembly dimension and a play with chance.
Faced with the most difficult questions, Sheila turns to the people in the room who have been given a small remote control they can use to answer her questions. The answers are projected at a rapid pace on a screen suspended over the stage in an oppressive binary code. Yes and no is the sign of a fury, of a strange unhinging of the soul of the protagonist, who questions herself with irony and ferocity on such a nodal matter, leading us to reflect on the value of choice, projecting intimate and ordinary questions on always controversial topics onto the text.