Blessed Forgetful - Voila! Festival 2026

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” - Nietzsche

Blessed Forgetful is a physical, devised theatre piece reimagining Germaine Pichot, remembered largely through the men who loved, desired and painted her, including Picasso and Casagemas. Inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the piece places a fantastical memory-erasing device in Germaine’s hands and asks could forgetting become an act of care, or does love survive even after memory has been erased? Blending movement-led fragments, shifting images, sound, light and projection, Blessed Forgetful disrupts the stories imposed upon Germaine and imagines a woman stepping beyond the roles of lover, muse and tragedy.