Dear mum is a work by William Cardoso that takes up the theme of coming out. This solo is a journey inside ourselves. It’s a letter to my mother, your father, our sisters and brothers… to those around us. A journey that takes us into the deepest part of ourselves, where there’s little color, where it’s sometimes too dark, where we can only hear the echo of our thoughts. Walls filled with memories, images, sounds, emotions…

I wish I were different – like the others.

A sense of freedom buried under – humiliation, – sexual exposure, and – escape. Dear mum dramatizes the experience before, during and after coming out. A confrontation with oneself before confronting others. Accepting oneself before being accepted by others. A constant war – heavy and poignant. The body sets itself in motion, searching for different ways to assume its truth. An intimate space that we are forced to expose to the spotlight, for all the world to see.

I’d rather be dead than gay.

“Why am I locked up in this body? Why me?” A man who, according to society, doesn’t fit the norm. Bathed in a gray cloud, it’s hard for the light to shine through. Darkness dominates his thoughts, the idea of suicide eases his heartbeat. Fleeing and starting a new life elsewhere are not thoughts a young person should have. How do you find the courage and strength to open up to others? Before coming out, we hide, we lie, we play a double game… in order to be accepted by society as normal demands.

Credits

Creation and interpretation:William Cardoso

Musical creation:Guillaume Jullien