Poster of Everlasting Regret. Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn.

Such subconscious recording, according to Noiret, helped her "discover the unknown" about herself, about females as human beings.

"When I was a child and a teenager, I prefered to have short hair and wear pants, but when I grew older, I'd like to show my feminine side," Noiret said.

"Masculine or feminine, they are simply elements in you, and you can just use it the time you feel like to," she said.

In Noiret's enigma, life is tossed into pieces, yet in those pieces, you figure out what's missing in your lives.

Hors-Champ is one of the three plays introduced at the press conference of the International Women Festival. The other two include solo dance F(AUNE) given by David Drouard, Everlasting Regret (Changhenge) created by Chinese director GuoYanbo. They will be playing at Nine Theater-TNT Space on May 19/20. 010-65533968.