Sat May 10, 2014
The Des Voix Festival presents: Three Readings of New French Plays
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at Tides Theatre
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One Upon Another
(Les uns sur les autres)
by Léonore Confino
Translated by Emily-Jane Cohen and Michelle Haner
2:00pm
A fast-talking, fast-sleeping, fast-eating, satire that exposes the absurdity of a modern family, whose overabundance of electronic devices connects them to everything except each other.
A father, a mother, a grandfather, two teenagers and their dog live together in a house of good standing in Rueil Malmaison (outside Paris). Household electronics shine, bleep and beep in every room of their ultra utilitarian home. But despite the loud, over-stimulating pace of the household, communication becomes so abstract that the very meaning of language is lost, along with the lost arts of eating, sleeping, and sex. But then again, who needs such antiquated forms of recreation?
Everything changes when their Grandfather dies and a great secret erupts. This painful revelation paradoxically unites the family with an electroshock so powerful that it injects a sudden consciousness that removes what habits and reflexes had previously cast aside. Family members re-inhabit rooms, words are re-organized into syntax, questions finally require real answers, and a meaningful silence pervades their home. This play will be read at 2:00pm.
Where and When We Died
(Où(et quand nous sommes morts)
by Riad Gahmi
Translated by Rob Melrose
5:00pm
This dark, right-wing political comedy centers around Karim, an Arab living in the banlieues surrounding Paris (neighborhood housing projects similar to inner-city subsidized housing in the U.S.), and his ferocious clash with a middle-aged couple from a wealthy neighborhood. Soon after the knob to their entrance door breaks, the couple’s bourgeois apartment slowly transforms into a theater, where a battle, both ideological and territorial, unravelsIn a highly satirical voice, Riad Gahmi criticizes the politicization of immigrants in contemporary society by uncovering and exposing blatant racism. Moreover, this piece is an open call to reflect on these issues beyond the media’s sensationalist conjuring of empathy, which results in social division rather than social unity. This play will be read at 5:00pm.
Death of a Young Man
(Un jeune se tue)
by Christophe Honoré
Translated by Erik Butler and Kimberly Jannarone
8:00pm
A country road. A car crash. Nocturnal rituals ensue, releasing phantoms past and present.
It’s pitch black on a country road in the middle of summer. At the edge of a forest, three girls stand around a burning car, hunched over Gaëlle’s mutilated body. Fragments from the past and present resurface, which spark a series of supernatural events. Rituals ensue, and then ghosts return in this troubling story about love, death and phantoms. This play will be read at 8:00pm.
ticket info: http://www.desvoixfestival.com/the-plays/
Check out the full schedule of fantastic events going on throughout the Des Voix festival, including new play readings and translations, new French films, and the spectacular Bal Littéraire, at https://www.desvoixfestival.com!
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(Les uns sur les autres)
by Léonore Confino
Translated by Emily-Jane Cohen and Michelle Haner
2:00pm
A fast-talking, fast-sleeping, fast-eating, satire that exposes the absurdity of a modern family, whose overabundance of electronic devices connects them to everything except each other.
A father, a mother, a grandfather, two teenagers and their dog live together in a house of good standing in Rueil Malmaison (outside Paris). Household electronics shine, bleep and beep in every room of their ultra utilitarian home. But despite the loud, over-stimulating pace of the household, communication becomes so abstract that the very meaning of language is lost, along with the lost arts of eating, sleeping, and sex. But then again, who needs such antiquated forms of recreation?
Everything changes when their Grandfather dies and a great secret erupts. This painful revelation paradoxically unites the family with an electroshock so powerful that it injects a sudden consciousness that removes what habits and reflexes had previously cast aside. Family members re-inhabit rooms, words are re-organized into syntax, questions finally require real answers, and a meaningful silence pervades their home. This play will be read at 2:00pm.
Where and When We Died
(Où(et quand nous sommes morts)
by Riad Gahmi
Translated by Rob Melrose
5:00pm
This dark, right-wing political comedy centers around Karim, an Arab living in the banlieues surrounding Paris (neighborhood housing projects similar to inner-city subsidized housing in the U.S.), and his ferocious clash with a middle-aged couple from a wealthy neighborhood. Soon after the knob to their entrance door breaks, the couple’s bourgeois apartment slowly transforms into a theater, where a battle, both ideological and territorial, unravelsIn a highly satirical voice, Riad Gahmi criticizes the politicization of immigrants in contemporary society by uncovering and exposing blatant racism. Moreover, this piece is an open call to reflect on these issues beyond the media’s sensationalist conjuring of empathy, which results in social division rather than social unity. This play will be read at 5:00pm.
Death of a Young Man
(Un jeune se tue)
by Christophe Honoré
Translated by Erik Butler and Kimberly Jannarone
8:00pm
A country road. A car crash. Nocturnal rituals ensue, releasing phantoms past and present.
It’s pitch black on a country road in the middle of summer. At the edge of a forest, three girls stand around a burning car, hunched over Gaëlle’s mutilated body. Fragments from the past and present resurface, which spark a series of supernatural events. Rituals ensue, and then ghosts return in this troubling story about love, death and phantoms. This play will be read at 8:00pm.
ticket info: http://www.desvoixfestival.com/the-plays/
Check out the full schedule of fantastic events going on throughout the Des Voix festival, including new play readings and translations, new French films, and the spectacular Bal Littéraire, at https://www.desvoixfestival.com!
One Upon Another
(Les uns sur les autres)
by Léonore Confino
Translated by Emily-Jane Cohen and Michelle Haner
2:00pm
A fast-talking, fast-sleeping, fast-eating, satire that exposes the absurdity of a modern family, whose overabundance of electronic devices connects them to everything except each other.
A father, a mother, a grandfather, two teenagers and their dog live together in a house of good standing in Rueil Malmaison (outside Paris). Household electronics shine, bleep and beep in every room of their ultra utilitarian home. But despite the loud, over-stimulating pace of the household, communication becomes so abstract that the very meaning of language is lost, along with the lost arts of eating, sleeping, and sex. But then again, who needs such antiquated forms of recreation?
Everything changes when their Grandfather dies and a great secret erupts. This painful revelation paradoxically unites the family with an electroshock so powerful that it injects a sudden consciousness that removes what habits and reflexes had previously cast aside. Family members re-inhabit rooms, words are re-organized into syntax, questions finally require real answers, and a meaningful silence pervades their home. This play will be read at 2:00pm.
Where and When We Died
(Où(et quand nous sommes morts)
by Riad Gahmi
Translated by Rob Melrose
5:00pm
This dark, right-wing political comedy centers around Karim, an Arab living in the banlieues surrounding Paris (neighborhood housing projects similar to inner-city subsidized housing in the U.S.), and his ferocious clash with a middle-aged couple from a wealthy neighborhood. Soon after the knob to their entrance door breaks, the couple’s bourgeois apartment slowly transforms into a theater, where a battle, both ideological and territorial, unravelsIn a highly satirical voice, Riad Gahmi criticizes the politicization of immigrants in contemporary society by uncovering and exposing blatant racism. Moreover, this piece is an open call to reflect on these issues beyond the media’s sensationalist conjuring of empathy, which results in social division rather than social unity. This play will be read at 5:00pm.
Death of a Young Man
(Un jeune se tue)
by Christophe Honoré
Translated by Erik Butler and Kimberly Jannarone
8:00pm
A country road. A car crash. Nocturnal rituals ensue, releasing phantoms past and present.
It’s pitch black on a country road in the middle of summer. At the edge of a forest, three girls stand around a burning car, hunched over Gaëlle’s mutilated body. Fragments from the past and present resurface, which spark a series of supernatural events. Rituals ensue, and then ghosts return in this troubling story about love, death and phantoms. This play will be read at 8:00pm.
ticket info: http://www.desvoixfestival.com/the-plays/
Check out the full schedule of fantastic events going on throughout the Des Voix festival, including new play readings and translations, new French films, and the spectacular Bal Littéraire, at https://www.desvoixfestival.com!
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(Les uns sur les autres)
by Léonore Confino
Translated by Emily-Jane Cohen and Michelle Haner
2:00pm
A fast-talking, fast-sleeping, fast-eating, satire that exposes the absurdity of a modern family, whose overabundance of electronic devices connects them to everything except each other.
A father, a mother, a grandfather, two teenagers and their dog live together in a house of good standing in Rueil Malmaison (outside Paris). Household electronics shine, bleep and beep in every room of their ultra utilitarian home. But despite the loud, over-stimulating pace of the household, communication becomes so abstract that the very meaning of language is lost, along with the lost arts of eating, sleeping, and sex. But then again, who needs such antiquated forms of recreation?
Everything changes when their Grandfather dies and a great secret erupts. This painful revelation paradoxically unites the family with an electroshock so powerful that it injects a sudden consciousness that removes what habits and reflexes had previously cast aside. Family members re-inhabit rooms, words are re-organized into syntax, questions finally require real answers, and a meaningful silence pervades their home. This play will be read at 2:00pm.
Where and When We Died
(Où(et quand nous sommes morts)
by Riad Gahmi
Translated by Rob Melrose
5:00pm
This dark, right-wing political comedy centers around Karim, an Arab living in the banlieues surrounding Paris (neighborhood housing projects similar to inner-city subsidized housing in the U.S.), and his ferocious clash with a middle-aged couple from a wealthy neighborhood. Soon after the knob to their entrance door breaks, the couple’s bourgeois apartment slowly transforms into a theater, where a battle, both ideological and territorial, unravelsIn a highly satirical voice, Riad Gahmi criticizes the politicization of immigrants in contemporary society by uncovering and exposing blatant racism. Moreover, this piece is an open call to reflect on these issues beyond the media’s sensationalist conjuring of empathy, which results in social division rather than social unity. This play will be read at 5:00pm.
Death of a Young Man
(Un jeune se tue)
by Christophe Honoré
Translated by Erik Butler and Kimberly Jannarone
8:00pm
A country road. A car crash. Nocturnal rituals ensue, releasing phantoms past and present.
It’s pitch black on a country road in the middle of summer. At the edge of a forest, three girls stand around a burning car, hunched over Gaëlle’s mutilated body. Fragments from the past and present resurface, which spark a series of supernatural events. Rituals ensue, and then ghosts return in this troubling story about love, death and phantoms. This play will be read at 8:00pm.
ticket info: http://www.desvoixfestival.com/the-plays/
Check out the full schedule of fantastic events going on throughout the Des Voix festival, including new play readings and translations, new French films, and the spectacular Bal Littéraire, at https://www.desvoixfestival.com!
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