This event is in the past.It took place on December 6, 2024 at Le Grand T.
A woman scrubs bloodstains from slaughterhouse aprons by day and chases literary dreams by night. Alice Zeniter's fierce feminist retelling of Jack London's Martin Eden transposes the classic to modern France, asking whether talent or class determines who gets to write — and who gets loved.
contemporary French theater
feminist adaptation
working-class struggle
literary ambition
Tips
📖based on Jack London's Martin Eden
🥩Zeniter researched in a real abattoir laundry
⏱️2h10 runtime with intermission
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Saint-Donatien
A woman scrubs bloodstains from slaughterhouse aprons by day and chases literary dreams by night. Alice Zeniter's fierce feminist retelling of Jack London's Martin Eden transposes the classic to modern France, asking whether talent or class determines who gets to write — and who gets loved.
contemporary French theater
feminist adaptation
working-class struggle
literary ambition
Tips
📖based on Jack London's Martin Eden
🥩Zeniter researched in a real abattoir laundry
⏱️2h10 runtime with intermission
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