«Shit, I’m shit.» Minuit soleil. – Rebecca Balestra

Just like those great oldies that you can listen to over and over again, Rebecca Balestra’s lyrics have a cathartic power. Blurring genres, mixing the prosaic with the poetic, humour with despair, Olympia compiles powerfully authentic, topical lyrics, performed in a sophisticated recital atmosphere. You may have discovered her slams in Tropiques (2015) at the TU, or in Show set (2017) at the Arsenic or even more recently at the Comédie de Genève, where she recreated a Piano-bar (2019) atmosphere by combining her writing with repertoire music. The author and performer then took the opportunity to deepen and enlarge the scope of this intimate piece. Searching for truths in the simplest of ways, Olympia tells us the stories, among others, of a divorced parent addicted to porn, of a woman who is endlessly nursing a hangover, and of a sunset in a nursing home.