Tag: NAC French theatre 2018

La Cerisaie: bits and pieces of pathos and ferocious humour are all that remain of the tragic content !

La Cerisaie: bits and pieces of pathos and ferocious humour are all that remain of the tragic content !

photo. Theatre TG Stan. Lopakhin, Firs, Lyubov

La Cérisaie (The Cherry Tree/the Cherry Orchard) presented by the Belgian company TG  STAN (i.e. Stop Thinking About Names)

The Flemish  TG Stan collective from Antwerp  chose to perform their version of Chekhov’s last play (1903-04), as a comedy where the tragedy was reduced to moments of pure pathos as  the actors free themselves from the  constraints of Chekhov’s  theatrical conventions.  The enclosed space of a dying society has flung open the windows and let fresh air flood into the theatre to produce  a counter discourse that brought this performance beyond  what we might expect.  This reading  was at times intriguing but at times disturbing because we seemed to lose something.

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La Cérisaie: a performance that feels like a workshop might need a director!

La Cérisaie: a performance that feels like a workshop might need a director!

La Cérisaie,  Jolente De Keersmaeker as Luybov, Frank Vercruyssen as Lopakhin