Prisca Demarez

Paris - 10/2015 - Grizabella

Biography
Theatre credits: Nancy in Oliver Twist (Paris, 2016); Grizabella in Cats (Paris, 2015); Evil Queen in Blanche-Neige (Paris, 2013); French Cancan, The Spirit of Paris (Paris, 2013); Kate Monster / Lucie la Salope in Avenue Q (Paris, 2012); Attention au départ (Paris, 2011); Dominique in Mike, laisse-nous t'aimer (Paris, 2010); Casting (France, 2010); Ces années-là (France, 2010); Les nouvelles aventures de Robin des Bois (France, 2010); Souricolor (France, 2010); Jonas (France, 2008); Le Camion (Paris, 2008); Les 4 Vérités (Paris, 2008); Cabaret (Paris, 2007); Titanic (Belgium, 2005); Colombine in La Surprise de l'Amour (Paris, 2005); Flaminia in La Double Inconstance (Paris, 2004); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Paris, 2003); Paul et Virginie (Reunion Island, 2002); Séga Pluriel (2000)

Television credits: Tiffany in Soaperette (30 episodes, 2006); Ève in Jardin d'Éden (pilot, 2006); a nurse in Navarro (episode Jour de colère, 2004), Camion Bar (pilot, 2002)

Cinema credits: All Turn (short film, 2011); Requiem (short film, 2010)

Other credits: Fashion show model for Eymeric François (2006-2011) ; daily radio show (Reunion Island, 2000-2002)

Interviews
Regarding Baby Griz:

Marie Berson: I, for one, would be very curious to hear more about the cat you play at first with the Jellicles before Grizabella's entrance! Does she have a name? A role?

Prisca: It's such a delight to perform the opening number with the whole cast! That moment is very important to me. Of course she has a name! Her name is Baby Griz, but I call her Grizzy Baby. She has the same colours as Grizabella on her face. She's as pure as Victoria and doesn't know life's sorrows yet. She's a kitten. I think she rounds everything off. She embodies the beginning of life, in a family, before the choices and difficulties arise.

I'm often asked why Grizabella doesn't come back young and beautiful at the end. I think we actually see her at the start, as Grizzy Baby, like a new life, a blank page to be filled in. It's what Grizabella was when she was little. It's in that form that she'll come back from the Heavyside Layer - as a kitten. She allows me to have a past with the group, a feeling of having danced with them before I couldn't do it anymore. And she's so joyful and light before she carries the weight of Grizabella's sorrow.