Synopsis

_jeanne_dark_ is the Instagram handle chosen by Jeanne, a sixteen-year-old from a Catholic family who lives in a suburb of Orléans. For the past few months, she has been subjected to taunts from her classmates about her virginity. One evening, while alone in her room, she decides to speak out live on Instagram. Facing her followers, Jeanne films herself, comes out of her silence, exposes herself, looks at herself, invents herself, tells her story, experiments and raves. In a frantic narrative, the teenager regains control over her image, recreates real-life situations and takes turns playing the people who make up her world. In this waltz of characters, masks and Instagram filters, another Jeanne takes shape before our very eyes, one who, locked away in her bedroom, gives free rein to her fantasies and shatters her identity.

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The Play

Jeanne Dark is a play by Marion Siéfert, co-written with Matthieu Bareyre, and directed by Marion Siéfert, initially premiered at Théâtre de La Rose des Vents, Villeneuve d’Ascq(France ), before being staged at La Commune – CDN d’Aubervilliers in October 2020. The play then embarked on a major national and international tour, with over 120 performances in the French provinces, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec, as well as in Germany, Spain and the United States. The show was awarded the Prix Numérique (Digital award) by the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique de Théâtre, de Musique et de Danse, with a special mention. A new national tour of the play has been announced, with a further ten or so dates starting in January 2025, when it will be presented as part of the Fondation Hermès Festival Transforme, at the Scène Nationale de Clermont-Ferrand.