By students at Collège Voltaire, Geneva

When we first heard the name of the play, we thought it was very long and weird for a title. It interested us and we were curious to see what the play was talking about.

The authors of the play wanted to talk about the subject of death, because nowadays our society avoids any contact with death and they believe perhaps it is good to talk about it.

The play “J’ai l’impression qu’André est mort dans les toilettes” was written by Hélène Cattin, Sandra Gaudin and Christian Scheidt, who are members of the Lausanne company “Un Air de Rien”.They were inspired by philosophers like Spinoza and Platon as well as poetic and scientific research.

We were expecting a boring play, but in the end we found it very interesting. There were some dark, sad, anguished, deep moments, but we laughed a lot at sketches on the subject of the death.

Going to the theatre is a real change in our habits. It talks about a serious and taboo subject, which is death, but with a lot of humor.

At the Saint-Gervais theatre, the last week of April 2009

Ed. note: This review was written by two students in the OS English classes at Collège Voltaire in Geneva, part of a week-long programme where the school and GenevaLunch collaborated to help students set up their own online newspaper.

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