Giving voice to the text of Gérard Bonal, The three actresses Sabine HAUDEPIN, Catherine Salviat and Pauline Haudepin shine on stage the multiple facets of the writer, whose successive incarnations meet. On the evening of his life, The lady of the Palais-Royal "resuscitates" all those she was: beginner, The young Colette Willy, who just wrote Claudine at school, With his infinite braid lost in the folds of the long skirt, to Madame Colette, The famous novelist of budding wheat, In the force of the age, Sure of herself and her talent. Magicians who seem to come out of each other, Like pigogenic dolls ...

Gérard Bonal (1941-2022) was a specialist in Colette's work, to which he devoted the Colette reference biography (Perrin, 2014), Many works such as Colette by myself (Ramsay, 1982), Intimate Colette (Phebus, 2004) or Colette and animals (Tallandier, 2019), as well as several pieces and documentaries, Of which Colette Music-Hall in 1995 and I belong to a country that I left in 2004. He is the founder of Cohiers Colette and chaired the Société des Amis de Colette between 2001 and 2007. His field of expertise S ' Also extends to the cultural history of the 20th century, more particularly the theater. He is also the author of Biographies of Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Renaud, Jean-Louis Barrault and Joséphine Baker.

Sabine Haudepin is a French actress who started in the cinema under the direction of François Truffaut with whom she made several films, including soft skin and the last metro. On the screen, She has held remarkable roles that have been entrusted to her by directors such as André Téchiné, Maurice Pialat, Nagisa Oshima, Bertrand Blier, Benoît Jacquot or Pascal Thomas. In parallel, she continued her career in the theater, Under the guidance among others of Caroline Huppert, Andreas Voutsinas, Bernard Murat or Jacques Lassalle. She regularly gives Colette to hear and wrote a free adaptation of her life that she has played on tour. She won the Gérard Philipe Prize and received a Molière.

Catherine Salviat is a French actress, trained at the National Conservatory of Drama. She is honorary member of the Comédie-Française, Playing in pieces of the classic and contemporary repertoire, such as the Trilogy of Carlo Goldoni's vacation staged by Giorgio Strehler, Dialogues of the Carmelites of Georges Bernanos by Gildas Bourdet - which earned him a Molière in 1988 -, The Night of the Iguane of Tennessee Williams by Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman, Dramuscles of Thomas Bernhard by Catherine Hiegel, Or Agota Kristof's illiterate by Nabil El Azan. Besides the theater, She interpreted characters for cinema, in series or telefilms.

Pauline Haudepin is an actress, Author and French director. After university training and theatrical practice at the Conservatoire du Vie arrondissement de Paris, She joined the Strasbourg National Theater School. She staged her text in the vague grounds there, Then resumed at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale. She also created the shows the tale of the little white bull in 2013, Bobby Unborn in 2014 and dear room in 2022. As a interpreter, She notably played under the direction of Hélène Babu, de Maëlle dequiedt, Julien Gosselin and Mathilde Delahaye. She also appears in the cinema in the beautiful summer of Pierre Creton.