1942: (The Fictionalized Goddaughter Marie — Enraptured by the Skill and Content of de Pradines’s Performance the Audience May Have Overlooked Her Actual Cha…

1942: (The Fictionalized Goddaughter Marie — Enraptured by the Skill and Content of de Pradines’s Performance the Audience May Have Overlooked Her Actual Character Marie, Perez Having Written a Likely Fictionalized Goddaughter into the Sanité Bélair Script — In the Midst of Song Dance and Rapid Dialogue About Military Encounters Sanité’s Filleule Reminding the Audience That the Revolutionary Warrior Was a Marraine, Sanité’s Inevitable Violent Corporeal Death Repeatedly Refused by the Presence of the Future Calling Her Name “Marraine!” in Every Act): Enraptured by the skill and content of de Pradines’s performance, the audience may have overlooked her actual character, Marie. Perez wrote a likely fictionalized goddaughter into the Sanité Bélair script. In the midst of song, dance, and rapid dialogue about military encounters, Sanité’s filleule (goddaughter) reminded the audience that the revolutionary warrior was a marraine. Sanité’s inevitable violent corporeal death was repeatedly refused by the presence of the future calling her name — “Marraine!” — in every act. Their fates were linked — the child’s cry for her godmother was a refusal of death, the future insisting that the past could not be killed so long as someone remained to call its name.