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Between recounted moments and poetry, this solo performance is a story of resilience told with restraint in an intimate setting with the audience. An ode to art as a form of resistance, to friendship as the only hope.<br><br> Marie Torreton retraces the years of deportation of Charlotte Delbo, a French resistance fighter transferred in January 1943 to Auschwitz, and delivers, in a moving testimony, moments on the edge of life and death.<br><br> How did she and some of her comrades survive? This question is at the heart of this one-woman show adapted from the writings of Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After.<br><br> These women forged boundless solidarity in the midst of hell; they managed to bring forth glimmers of life, sparks of light, even in the heart of death. Their friendship possesses a profoundly moving tenderness, which Marie Torreton has brought to light.<br><br> A woman of the theatre and assistant to Louis Jouvet, Charlotte Delbo believed that if she reached the end of her memory, she would die. She remembered 57 poems and learned The Misanthrope by heart in order to recite it to herself, in its entirety, at the roll call each morning.