Description
Séverine Chavrier adapts for the stage Das Kalkwerk (1970), one of Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard’s earliest novels. A couple isolates itself from the world and becomes lost in the glacial landscape of a lime works. He wants to write a book on hearing; she is totally dependent on him, due to her poor health. They live in a conjugal hell, ruled by emotional blackmail, an antechamber of death. By adding a character (a female nurse) that wasn’t in the novel, the French stage director intensifies this violent relationship. A farce with tinges of melancholy and despair, Ils nous ont oubliés interweaves scenography, video and treated sound to convey to us the short-circuited minds of the protagonists, where illness mirrors the ruin of an artistic ideal. Séverine Chavrier describes this production as a musical poem. All of Bernhard’s humour and pessimism reverberate throughout this ode to sterility.
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Credits
based upon Das Kalkwerk, by Thomas Bernhard
directed by Séverine Chavrier
musician Florian Satche bird training Tristan Plot set design Louise Sari video Quentin Vigier sound design Simon d’Anselme de Puisaye, Séverine Chavrier lighting design Germain Fourvel costumes Andrea Matweber technical direction Corto Tremorin direction assistance Ferdinand Flame dramaturgy assistance Marion Stenton
cast Laurent Papot, Marijke Pinoy, Camille Voglaire
produced by CDN Orléans/Centre-Val de Loire
co-produced by Théâtre de Liège – Tax Shelter, Théâtre National de Strasbourg, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Tandem Scène Nationale Arras-Douai, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya with the support of Région Centre – Val de Loire
opening 12 Mar 2022 Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona)
playing time 3:45 WITH 2 INTERMISSIONS Ages 12 and up
Programme organized under the Portugal-France 2022 Season
Show in French, Portuguese subtitles.
Sessions
Teatro São João
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