Nicole Couderc
Little Clara, the painting clown, is afraid her grandmother will lose too much of her memory to be able to live. It's a play about memory, the passing down of knowledge between generations, and the friendship between a boy who uses frogs, born from his imagination, to build himself up, and the little girl that is Clara, in a world where situations are explored, where words and art offer salvation and a different way of expressing oneself. Everything remains to be done. The new world, post-lockdown, is envisioned by the animals of Noah's Ark. The flood, 40 days of rain, the ark sails, the water covers the earth. Then the rain stops, the water disappears, the animals can go out to build another world...
Nicole Couderc blends novels, plays, and film in her writing. She has published several novels, including *L'organisation* (POL) and *La Fille de Kingston* (Hachette Littérature). She collaborates on screenplays, including *Grand Ciel*, a Noël Alpi film (Arte Cinéma), a loose adaptation of her novel *L'enfant au Billard Électrique* (POL). For the theater, she wrote *Toi ma Forêt*, a public reading with Marie-Christine Barrault. She was invited to the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale in Paris with four young actors to create the play *Qui va là*. She wrote *Le petit Clown de peinture* for young audiences during a residency in Cannes in collaboration with the Théâtre de La Licorne. Her play *Trace* received ARTCENA grant funding and was produced in a production directed by Gilles David at the MAC in Créteil as part of the Les Théâtrales Charles Dullin festival. Publication date: March 1, 2025. Order Press release
