Director
Georges Perec
The Raise
Original title: LʼAugmentation
First Slovenian production
Opening night
4 October 2024
Small Stage
Duration:
90 minutes, no interval
Creators
Cast
You, at the start of your career, in your prime
You, towards the end of your career, when you have left your best years in service
Your first boss, who dies unexpectedly
Your colleague, who is later promoted to become your new boss
Yolanda, a secretary who later retires but still comes to the office occasionally
Hermelina, your colleague, who later becomes the new secretary
Cleaning lady, always the same
Georges Perec is best known in Slovenia for his novels Things; Life, A User’s Manual. He was a member of an experimental group of “mathematicians and occasional literati, and literati and occasional mathematicians”, called Oulipo. The Raise, originally written in a single sentence in the second person singular without punctuation, and subsequently published in 1968 under the title The Art and Method of Approaching Your Boss to Ask For a Raise, is similarly marked by the use of formal linguistic procedures. In 1969, he rewrote it as a radio score for six voices, and a year later as a theatre play which has been revived to great acclaim in French theatres in recent years.
“L’Augmentation” by Georges Perec © Hachette Littératures, 2001 ; Editions Fayard, 2012
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