Bells and Spells casts the French star as a kleptomaniac in a performance that leaves the audience guessing
In her mystifying shows, Aurélia Thierrée has crossed the stage in an upside-down sedan, blown cigarette smoke through her ears and poured wine while trapped in a chest, her limbs spilling out of drawers. So it’s disarming to find this saucer-eyed queen of the uncanny sitting on a simple folding chair, sipping a can of Coke, in her attic room at Montmartre’s Théâtre de l’Atelier. You half expect the contents of the dressing table to disappear or the pictures to come alive as they do in her new show, Bells and Spells, staged several twisting flights of stairs below. But the only disruption comes from her cat, who stretches out on a yoga mat by our feet, scratches around in the litter tray and eventually hops into Thierrée’s lap. He is as sleek and mischievous a presence as his owner is on stage.
Bells and Spells, which comes to the UK in May, is the dreamlike odyssey of a woman who is both light-footed and light-fingered. Thierrée swipes silverware from her suitor during a tango, nicks exhibits in a museum and even steals her way into a medieval picture.
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