Pelléas et Mélisande

On Tuesday night 3 October I will perform the role Pelléas in the play Pelléas et Melisande, written in 1892 by the Belgian Nobelprize-winner Maurice Maeterlinck. The play is one of the regular playreading set up by the Geneva English Drama Society.
The performance will take place in the English Church Hall, at Rue de Montblanc, at 20h00.

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Citoyen de Nulle Part

On 31 May and 1 June we will perform the play Citoyen de Nulle Part, at 20 o'clock at the aula of Collège de Voltaire, Geneva. Tonight is the dress rehearsal, with the full gear. It'll be very interesting to see if everybody will remember their lines… ;-)

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La Sourde Oreille

The theatre Le Poche, here in Geneva, is playing "La sourde Oreille" by Torben Betts. I was there on the ngiht of Friday May 5.
The play starts like a completely ordinary family meeting. It's only gradually that environment degenerates at such point that it is not known if one must laugh or cry.
When one has "une [...]

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Doña Rosita

The première of the Lorca play “Doña Rosita” at la Comedie was on 26 April. And by hazard there was a ticket over for me…
I liked very much the mix of music and theatre, which didn’t turn it into a musical. The musicians were part of the play, and made up a good balance to the young girls on [...]

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North country

The newspaper Le Temps invited its subscribers Sunday night for the Geneva avant-premier of the movie North Country.
The movie, which had the working title Class Action, tells the story of the first sexual harassment case in the US.
 

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Justine

In Justine, the first book in the Alexandria Quartet we zero in on Justine, a mysterious and alluring nymphomaniac with dubious origin. To give her character body, Durrell uses the technique of letting the story teller find a book written by her former husband, Arnauti, on their marriage and the causes for its demise. Interesting technique. 
I like the following paragraph [...]

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Allers-Retours

The play we are setting up in the Aula of Collège de Voltaire on May 31 and June 1, Citoyen de nulle part, is based on von Horváth’s Allers-Retours. The poster on the left is from La Comédie’s setup of the piece last year (and which also inspired our teacher Denise to pick this play for her [...]

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Citoyen de Nulle Part

The theatre group I belong to, directed by Mme Denise Chollet at Université Populaire here in Geneva, is setting up the play Allers-Retours by Ödön von Horváth on May 31 and June 1, 2006. We have changed the name of the play to Citoyen de Nulle Part as our version is radically altered from the [...]

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Le rêve d’un homme ridicule

Last night I went to the S:t Gervais Thêátre for the monologue Le rêve d’un homme ridicule. It is a pience adapted from the writings of Dostoïvski. It was a test to see whether my French would be up to it, if I could follow a whole play. The first half an hour went fine, then [...]

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Mangal Pandey – The Rising

I was quite positively surprised yesterday when I watched the Indian movie Mangal Pandey – The Rising. I picked up the DVD at a friend’s place, and didn’t know what to expect of it. Now I wonder why it never was screen here in Europe?
It isa nice mix of Bollywood style and European narratives, and [...]

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