The Illness of Death exposes the anchor points of the Durassian fantasy. This text stages the bodies, deserted, immense, between sleep and tides. The man dead to love contracts the woman to the emergence of unlived, buried desire. Applied to the gestures of love without there being any need to love, he comes into the world a corpse or a murderer. The extent of the lethal body of a woman forbidden to speak gives rise to the murderous desire that comes into the world under the tears of its absence from life. During this heavy progression of gestures towards the act of love, the illness declares itself irremediable. The work is accomplished in gravity; the coming together of the bodies discovers the danger, the coincidence of love and death, and imposes the observation of the unbridgeable difference. The contract in which love is inscribed is a sign of the dramatic character of this text which concentrates the impossible relationship between the sexes.

Karry Kamal Karry draws from Marguerite Duras' text, La Maladie de la mort, the insistence of Durasian themes around a primitive scene always marked by violence. Working on the notion of binomial, both for the dance and for the music, Karry Kamal Karry draws up a psychological portrait of each of the characters where the father and mother figure - a recurrent theme in Marguerite Duras' work - are apparent.