Two Little Ladies Head North

Stepping out from the crematorium after the death of their mother, two Parisian old maids, Annette and Bernadette, find themselves at the counter of the next door bar with the urn in their hands. Then in the corridor of a train. At the steering-wheel of a bus for 60. On hidden paths of a cemetery. In the lost time. An existential clownery, featuring the singing of Charles Aznavour.

Pierre Notte, born in Amiens (France) in 1969 is a director, writer, actor and lecturer. He has been writing for the theatre since 1990. His plays have been performed all over France and have won numerous prizes. In 2003 he won the Centre National des Lettres prize for an emerging dramatic writer. For “Moi aussi je suis Catherine Deneuve“ he got the Diane and Lucien Barrière Foundation’s Theatre Prize in 2005 and the “Molière” for best play in 2006. In 2006 he was also named a “New Theatre Talent” by the French Association of Authors and Composers. He runs the writing workshop of the French Society of Authors and has been General Secretary of the Comédie-Française in Paris since 2006. Pierre Notte, who lives in Paris, has been honoured as “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture.

Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes with no intermission