Mort de rire

The stage is in the mess of a laugh, like a mouth twisting with laughter. At first glance, it is death that is challenged by laughter. But in reality, death is not the exact subject: from a definite substantive, it quickly becomes an indeterminate adjective.  Undetermined. Nervous. To die becomes the adjective of laughter.  Laughter has a very short life. It can quickly disappear and spoil even faster.  In the confusion between provoking and representing the smile, the work and the sense of the theater have great difficulty in surviving. They risk suffocating there. They can struggle unnecessarily until they die, precisely … to have the illusion of saving or postponing as much as possible the end of the laughter. 

Source : Mathilde Monnier

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