Toujours après minuit

Señora Tentación

Brigitte Seth et Roser Montlló Guberna

In a block of flats, or more precisely in the lobby of a block of flats, two women, busy with their respective occupations, keep bumping into each other, colliding, looking at each other, brushing past each other, losing each other and finding each other again. One is a cleaning lady, the other a concierge. Little do they know that they are scrupulously hiding their love. Yet they live it, and celebrate it two days a month…

Señora Tentación pays tribute to this generation and those that preceded it, to the political struggles of the feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements, but also to the courage of our mothers and aunts, to their tenacity, their cunning, their fervent hope of living love for love, whatever the cost.

There is no greater joy than to hide, and no greater misfortune than not to be discovered. - William Somerset Maugham

About the compagny - Toujours après minuit

Brigitte Seth and Roser Montlló Guberna have been working together on theatrical research as artistic directors of Toujours après minuit since 1996. They are directors, authors, playwrights, choreographers and performers. Their research focuses on languages and generations. They bring together different artistic languages (theater, dance, music) and several languages (French, Spanish, Catalan). As Brigitte and Roser's two cultures fully coexist, these different languages are complementary, in harmony.

Brigitte Seth - Director, choreographer, performer

Brigitte is a french artist who trained at the Ecole des Arts et Techniques du Cirque et du Mime at the Nouveau Carré Sylvia Monfort in Paris. She writes and performs for various contemporary theater companies. Théâtre Emporté (later Zingaro), Théâtre Incarnat, ... she is also an actress with Patrice Bigel, Éloi Recoing, Tomeo vergès, Jean-François Peyret, ... She is a Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Roser Montlló Guberna - Director, choreographer, performer

Roser, coming from Spain, studied classical, contemporary and Spanish dance and theater at L'Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She won first prize at the
National Classical Dance Competition in Spain. Arriving in France in 1982, she began her career with choreographers Maguy Marin, Angelin Preljocaj,
Adriana Borrielo (Italy), Tomeo Vergès... She then pursued her career as an actress with Jean-Claude Penchenat, Sophie Loucachevsky, Jean-François Peyret, ...

Marie Dilasser - Author

Marie Dilasser was born in Brest in 1980. In 2000, she obtained a degree in performing arts, and in 2003 joined the “writing” department at ENSATT in Lyon, where she encountered queer issues, trouble with gender, traboules and Michel Raskine, who directed three of her texts: Quoi être maintenant?, Le Sous-locataire and Blanche-Neige, histoire d'un Prince.
She returned to Brittany and wrote Écho-Système (directed by Sylvie Jobert), Crash Test (directed by Nicolas Ramond) and Paysage Intérieur Brut (directed by Christophe Cagnolari, Barbara Shlittler and Blandine Pélissier). She then spent six years running a bar-tabac-grocery store, where she wrote Montag(n)es (staged collectively), Intermondes (directed by Laurent Vacher), Supposée Ève (staged by Laëtitia Guédon), MADAM#2 Ou comment faire le mur sans passer la nuit au poste (directed by Hélène Soulié).
In 2019, she navigates-wrote Soudain, chutes et envols (directed by Laurent Vacher in 2022), Penthésilé-e-s (Amazonomachie) (directed by Laëtitia Guédon in 2021), Océanisé-e-s (directed by Lucie Berelowitsch and adapted as Vanish in 2020).

Credits

Text Marie Dilasser (MarDi)
Direction, choreography, performance Brigitte Seth and Roser Montlló Guberna
Stage design Brigitte Seth and Roser Montlló Guberna
Lighting Guillaume Tesson
Music Chavela Vargas, Ruben González, Hugues Laniesse
Production Véronique Felenbok
Administration Aliénor Suet
Diffusion Emilia Petrakis
Press Olivier Saksik

Production

Production Toujours après minuit
Corealisation Les Plateaux Sauvages
With support and technical assistance from Les Plateaux Sauvages
With support from Florence Magnen and La Briqueterie CDCN du Val- de-Marne

The company is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture – DRAC Île-de-France, the Région Île de-France and receives
support from the Département du Val-de-Marne.

In the press

It's dance theater, where bodies in movement express as much as words chosen from the epidermis. Señora Tentación expresses the intensity of what unites these two women, loving each other, the fact that there's no age limit to yearning for each other, no sexual orientation required, the mystery of the magnetization of bodies and the way they ignite

Marie Plantin - Sceneweb

With their characteristic gentle madness and tender complicity, the two performer-choreographers flesh out Marie Dilasser's erotically suggestive text. Buoyed by Hispanic music and the warm voice of Chavela Vargas, Roser Montlló Guberna and Brigitte Seth take to the stage and turn prejudices on their head.

L'œil d'Olivier

While Señora Tentación pays tribute to the courage of women of past generations, the show is also a beautiful way of showing the lesbian relationship where it touches us: in the palpitation of life.

Arts-chipels

Their show is strong yet delicate, funny yet moving, melancholy yet joyful.

Théâtral Magazine