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adapted from Luigi Pirandello - COMPAGNIE DE l’OISEAU MOUCHE / Roubaix / France

Date: Saturday, May 6th 2006, 8 pm
Place: Theater im Pumpenhaus
Duration: approx. 70 minutes
Language: French with German surtitles

They just want to play for their lifes. Luigi Pirandello’s six characters looking for an author crash into a theatre rehearsal and demand nothing less than their right to exist. Somebody has forgotten to write their story to the end, which is not an excusable poet’s mistake. “After all, one doesn’t exist without a story”, as it is said in the beginning of the Pirandello adaptation of the French Compagnie de l’Oiseau Mouche. In this emerging comedy, the renowned integrative ensemble, Sartre-schooled and fondly disposed towards the absurd, tells about the greatest theatre and real life drama: not to appear. With all their courage for self-assertion, the unfinished make a scene in front of Monsieur le Directeur, who wants to kick the putative crazy perpetrators from his noble stage floor, a scene the theatre has not yet seen the likes of.

„Pirandello's mirror feat for actors in the offside-trap” on the other hand, has never before been as enlightened and enlightening as in this version. The l’Oiseau-Mouche-Ensemble, who has invited the choreographer Julie Stanzak, melts the six fold personal search for self-realization, freedom of life and artistic ambition into a dreamlike, delusive and energy sparkling stage poetry.

Actors: Martial Bourlard, Aurélie Bressy, Anita Delépine, Thierry Dupont, Frédéric Foulon, Hervé Lemeunier, Valérie Szmigielski, Valérie Vincent Direction: Antonio Viganò Choreography: Julie Stanzak



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