Sylvia Plath’s diaries offer a moving and intimate portrait of her short but intense life. The eager teenager who discovers her sexuality, the serious student with a wild love life who nevertheless wants to achieve the highest marks, her meeting with the British writer Ted Hughes and their marriage a few months later. Following her suicide in 1963, Plath became a feminist icon. Fabrice Murgia does not extract the feminist discourse from Sylvia Plath’s diaries, but instead aims to ‘fictionalise’ elements of her life. The scene is a film set in which each actress plays a different facet of Sylvia Plath. Juliette Van Dormael films and An Pierlé provides the live soundtrack, which takes the form of a sung ‘interior voice’ of Sylvia Plath. ‘Sylvia’ thus becomes melancholic musical theatre…