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A surprising and explosive moment of theatre.<br><br> "Things were better before! Even if they were worse!" A refrain these two old women could repeat to us endlessly! In a world without sugar or gluten, ruled by an invisible but omnipresent health brigade, they complain, can't stand each other, hate each other bitterly... and end up, sitting on their chairs, feeling "nostalgic for cockroaches."<br><br> Forced to "put on a show to attract customers" in what could be an eco-museum of the old or a freak show, they display their physical blemishes to anyone willing to touch them. But no one comes. They will have to wait in rivalry and put up with each other.<br><br> With his incisive prose, Pierre Notte gets to the heart of the matter with acuity and freshness, humor and sensitivity. Never before in the theater has the relationship between a society and its aging been explored with such freedom. Everything is there: the physical decline of old age, illness, nostalgia, the tsunami of emotions, the disintegration of social and familial bonds.<br><br> But Pierre Notte reminds us that it is never too late to rebel against an inevitable situation that some would like to downplay, hide, or sweep under the rug. "Life always finds a way out."<br><br> This text is stimulating and invigorating. Without embellishment, it tackles head-on, yet with tenderness and humor, this central question of a society too often inclined to "cancel" the problems it doesn't want to see. A satirical and humanist comedy