Comment j'ai accouché de ma mère

Each summer, France Culture takes over the courtyard of the Calvet Museum for a week of readings, poetry, thought, and artistic creations. In resonance with the Festival d’Avignon’s programme, this edition celebrates Arab culture and language—its literature and musicality. Renowned actresses and actors will lend their voices to emblematic texts, joined by writers, poets, musicians, and guest artists specially invited for the occasion.

Comment j'ai accouché de ma mère, Estelle Meyer – Voix d’auteurs with SACD

Estelle Meyer
Estelle Meyer is a polymorphous artist. Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, she follows a singular path. On stage, she played Sarah Bernhardt in L’Extraordinaire destinée de Sarah Bernhardt by Géraldine Martineau at the Théâtre du Palais Royal (nominated for the 2025 Molières), Princess Europe in productions by the Birgit Ensemble at the Festival d’Avignon’s “In” programme, the Fairy Queen for Guillaume Vincent at the Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe, and Volumnia in Coriolanus directed by François Orsoni at Théâtre de la Bastille.
She appears alongside Camélia Jordana and Zita Hanrot in Andando, a vibrant musical ode to Lorca directed by Daniel San Pedro at the Bouffes du Nord. At the opera, she embodied a powerful Dracula in the Orchestre National de Jazz’s Dracula. On television, she played Alex, a fiery Almodóvarian figure, in season 4 of Call My Agent! on France 2. In film, she was Jessica, a free-spirited samurai, in Rêves de jeunesse by Alain Raoust (opening of ACID Cannes 2019). On France Culture, she gave voice to Gloria, the heroine of Virginie Despentes’ Bye-Bye Blondie, and to Goliarda Sapienza for ARTE.
Deeply rooted in her from the beginning, music is Estelle Meyer’s other native language. Not bound to any specific genre, the singer-songwriter explores, through the organic fusion of words, music, and voice, an aesthetic and vision of humanity all her own. Her first book-album Sous ma robe mon cœur was published in 2019 by Riveneuve–Archimbaud and later adapted into a musical show. In spring 2023, she wrote and created her second musical performance Niquer la fatalité, chemin(s) en forme de femme, directed by Margaux Eskenazi (nominated for the 2023 Molières in the Best Solo Performance category). The text was published by Phénomènes in autumn 2023, and the live album of the songs was released in February 2025.

Text and performance Estelle Meyer
Musical composition Estelle Meyer, Grégoire Letouvet, and Pierre Demange
Dramaturgy Margaux Eskenazi
Duduk, drums, percussion Pierre Demange
Piano, prepared piano, and keyboard Grégoire Letouvet
Directed by Louise Loubrieu
Assistant director Céline Schaeffer