family matters!

dramatis personae: TC: Tom Collins; PJ: Pierre Collins; JJ: John Collins.
TC: Welcome, welcome, welcome back to KB (Kremlin-Bicêtre)
JJ: It’s been a long time, Dad. 
TC: Time has flown by; it seems like yesterday.  Why don’t you take off your shoes and have a seat.  Let’s get down to business right away.
PJ: How’s Helen? 
TC: Helen is Helen, and […]

Title of the play: “Facing the mother”
Synopsis: This play is the story of a mother who dies tragically in her home, and of her son, separated from her for some twenty years at the time of the play.  Several years after this tragic event her son meets up with her again, somewhere after death, to […]

Face à la mère, écrit, mis en scène et interprété par Jean-René Lemoine
SYNOPSIS:  C’est l’histoire d’une mère morte tragiquement dans le silence nocturne d’une maison familiale et de son fils séparé d’elle depuis près de 20 ans.  Quelques années après le drame, le fils lui donne rendez-vous, par delà la mort, pour lui confier tout […]

Something like a subliminal voice is here to tell us, as we grow up, how to behave.  Some will be lead by this voice during their whole life, and some will argue with it.  The situation reminds me of Celine, talking about the fundamental difference between being a citizen in times of peace, and being […]

Here is what PJ had to say on mom’s birthday about his love of details, certainly an aesthetics, if not a full-blown philosophy:
As many have noticed, I am a lover of details.  The state of my English allows me to converse easily with foreigners, and lets me identify and be identified by common references during the […]

Maintenant, je tiens à m’excuser auprès de Grand-mère pour ce message qui lui est pas directement destiné, et qui peut, selon l’interprétation qu’on en fait, venir assombrir ce jour de fête.  Je fais également mes excuses à tous ceux qui ne me liront pas, puisque je texte est rédigé en français.  Je suis, comme certains […]