Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr, born in Austria in 1914, saw her image as an actress transformed very early on. In 1934, she won a role in Extase, playing an orgasm for the first time in the history of cinema. This scene gave her a sulphurous reputation that would never leave her. She left Austria, became a naturalised American and signed with the biggest Hollywood studios.  

Yet Hedy Lamarr defies appearances. While she was named "the most beautiful woman in the world", she was secretly a genius inventor, far from the film sets. In the middle of the war, she invented a multitude of things: rationing systems for soldiers, frequency hopping torpedo guidance to help European refugees cross the ocean, and the beginnings of Wi-Fi!

Five colourful characters will love, challenge and kill each other in this closed-door setting over the next thirty-two hours. The elegant Hedy Lamarr, her best pianist friend George, two German spies disguised as American journalists and an invisible but surprising assistant are the protagonists of this play that invents an episode from the life of the inventor. Like a painting by Tarantino, the blood will run down their powder-pink three-piece suits, and the cartoon-like gunshots will undress our characters from evening dress to nightie in just a few shots.