The Wild Palms

Charlotte leaves her husband and children because of her passion for Harry; Harry cuts short his internship in order to run away with Charlotte. They have no possessions. Nothing, apart from their all-consuming passion for each other. Their dizzying story brings them to a bungalow next to the sea, at the mercy of the wind rustling in the wild palm-trees... “Can our love of love make us end up forgetting to love the other person? If we live our passion like a work of art, does it not become a very solitary undertaking, destined to failure?”.
In the light of these questions, Séverine Chavrier brings to the stage this heart-rending novel in which Faulkner builds up an “introspective and retrospective account” of the relationships between work and life, desire and creative ambition. With its first production in Vidy-Lausanne, the play was then presented at the end of 2014 at the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, and was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.