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Jean Anouilh

The Orchestra

Original title: L’Orchestre

Director

Diego de Brea

Opening night

21 September 2011
Small Stage

Duration:

65 minut, brez odmora

Creators

Creative team

TRANSLATOR

Radojka Vrančič

Drama Igralec: Radojka Vrančič | odpri ustvarjalca

SET DESIGNER

Diego de Brea

Drama Igralec: Diego de Brea | odpri ustvarjalca

DRAMATURG

Eva Kraševec

Drama Igralec: Eva Kraševec | odpri ustvarjalca

LANGUAGE CONSULTANT

Arko

Drama Igralec: Arko | odpri ustvarjalca

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Milan Podlogar

Drama Igralec: Milan Podlogar | odpri ustvarjalca

Cast

Polona Vetrih

Patricia

Marijana BreceljDrama Igralec: Marijana Brecelj | odpri igralca

Madame Hortense

Zvezdana MlakarDrama Igralec: Zvezdana Mlakar | odpri igralca

Suzanne Délicias

Maja KončarDrama Igralec: Maja Končar | odpri igralca

Ermeline

Metoda Zorčič

Léona

Jernej Šugman

Pianist

Jean Anouilh is a prolific French playwright, whose works ranged from high drama to absurdist farce. His career spanned over five decades. A play The Orchestra (L’Orchestre, 1962) is successful in transforming sordid and melodramatic material through exciting theatrical technique. For the framework of this short play Anouilh returns to the world of a third-rate café orchestra, which he had used in earlier plays, but this time his musicians are seen in performance, and their individual tales of love, frustration, cruelty, and even madness are underscored by the banal and cloying music they play. The central story of the unhappy and doomed love affair between two musicians has great sentimental potential. And when other members of the orchestra contribute their anecdotes about cruelty to children and aged parents, the work seems close to approaching the mood of Anouilh’s earliest plays, the pièces noires. But by giving his story the framework of a performance within performance, Anouilh undercuts the melodrama and achieves a more powerful play. The orchestra becomes a disturbing and particulary unsparing image of human activity. That these characters live desperate and unhappy lives in a world of bad music, bored audiences, and different companions, a world that seems to mock their private sufferings, turns a play into a disturbing and provocative work.
Lewis W. Falb

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