Deep into the show, a piece of sweet, wistful recorded music begins, a signal that, even in the world of The Bonds of Interest, tenderness and grace may have a foothold. That’s reassuring — at least a little bit. Because everywhere else in Jacinto Benavente’s 1907 comic play, here newly translated by Catherine Boyle and …
Cyrano de Bergerac, the character who really existed in the 17th century, and Edmond Rostand’s comédie dramatique, (written in 1897) based on that individual, seem to be lighting up stages around the world especially in a new prize-winning play written and directed by Alexis Michalik (Edmond – 2016). This romantic adaptation by Michalik of Rostand’s writing process which gives us an …
Posted by lefilduoff on 20 juillet 2019 · de Pierre Salles LEBRUITDUOFF.COM – 20 juillet 2019 AVIGNON OFF 19. « Moi, fardeau inhérent » de Guy Régis Jr – mise en scène et interprétation : Daniély Francisque au Train Bleu du 5 au 24 juillet 2019 à 17h55 (relâches les11 et 18 juillet) Entre théâtre …
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, the creator of the performance OUTSIDE that had its world premier at Avignon 2019. It is Serebrennikov’s third production to be featured at the festival, and it is as provocative …
In the narrative of history, the question “who is telling the story” is the most important one. HISTOIRE(S) DU THÉÂTRE II, created by the Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula, frames its chronicle from many perspectives and several temporal settings. It connects the history of Zaire under Mobutu’s dictatorship with the story of the glory and the fall …
Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma written by Martin Crimp, translated by Philippe Djian and directed by Daniel Jeanneteau, is among the most politically urgent works in the Avignon 2019. Not only that it builds on the enigmatic and ever wise text of Martin Crimp, it also references the new realities of today’s France …
The principle joy of the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Winter’s Tale is the uniformly excellent cast. From Jesse Nerenberg’s Leontes, incited into a jealous rage by Catherine Rainville’s elegant Hermione, to Quincy Armorer’s intense and proud Polixenes, to the vibrant through every fiber of her being Tamara Brown’s Paulina, this ensemble, under the sure handed direction of …
Let me tell you a secret – I love the old good comedy, its extensive gestures, inappropriate jokes, actors playing off each other, a quick change of a costume, a bit of dancing and singing; all that routine that seems to be fading away from the professional stages across the world, giving its place to …
A defining text of Western literature, Homer’s the Odyssey has recently resurfaced as the point of reference in many theatre productions wishing to speak to the conditions of contemporary migration. A narrative of the travel that focuses on being on the road, on the endeavours and the trials that an exilic traveler faces, the Odyssey allows contemporary …
What a delight, a relief and a sheer pleasure to sit through Olivier Py’s operetta for children and adults L’AMOUR VAINQUEUR. One hour long, this musical adaptation of Brothers Grimm’s Maid Maleen tale takes the audience through the history of French theatre, including its highbrow traditions of the Alexandrine poetry, usually reserved for tragedies, and the charming, …