Theater Night: Stupeur et tremblements (Fear & Trembling)
Stage performance based on Amélie Nothomb’s bestselling novel
Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française 1999 – Éditions Albin Michel
Adapted, Staged and Interpreted by Layla Metssitane
Play in French with English subtitles. (75 min)
About the “Stupeur et tremblements” (Fear and trembling)
Winter 1990. In Brussels, Amélie Nothomb has finished her studies in medieval roman philology. She decides to travel back to Japan in order to work, a country she knows since she was born there. She gets a one year work contract for the Yumimoto company. This job, more than she hope for, will bring her many surprises, from which she will learn various lessons... The main character is, of course, Amélie Nothomb herself, who writes autobiographically.
Fear and trembling is a humble, funny and intelligent point of view
from a young woman confronted to a new world.