Danton's Death tells about the shortcomings of language, about the incapability of communicating, about the inability of simply doing the right thing.
Five women in Rococo dresses tell about the difficulty of bringing together morality and virtue on one hand, and freedom and individuality on the other. They dominate and submit each other; they hold together and claim truth for oneself. And when one of them is French, another one cannot be French. In tricolour they are the heroines of a glam world but to the people they are only a bore.
Death of Danto uses Büchner's texts but does not submit itself. Taking the text as fundament and working with it from the very beginning, it negotiates - video clip-like - big themes of the French Revolution. They sing along with AIR and quote Büchner. In that course the piece fascinatingly oscillates between literature and performance.
really amazing interpretation of the text. I've been interested in the possibilities of staging such an anti-action play. Really cool.
8Clementine6 2 years ago
sunday bloody sunday!
borisceko 3 years ago