Au Monde at Theatre National
Dates: (1/28/2014 - 2/2/2014 )
Theatre National |
Boulevard Emile Jacqmainlaan 111-115
Bruxelles,Brussels 1000
Phone: +32 2 203.41.55
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A large flat, spacious and luxurious, where the patriarch sits in pride of place, at a big table set with a white tablecloth or hunched into a deep armchair; there are few elements of scenery on the vast, bare stage. The old father, a captain of industry, is suffering from rapidly encroaching senility and wants his oldest son, a former soldier, to take over his business. Around him moves a family which finds it difficult to be united: the pregnant socialite, a star TV presenter, the adopted sister, a haunted brother-in-law who doesn't stop talking but who says nothing, the ghost of a dead child. Awful family secrets, probable cases of incest, a prowling serial-killer, dark happenings: the family story behind closed doors has an air of disillusioned pastiche, and going beyond the psychology of the characters, it creates a radical critique of capitalist society. Written in 2004, with its atmosphere of strangeness delicately positioned in an intimate setting, Au Monde was a precursor to most of Pommerat's work which was to follow. Here it appears as an echo to Philippe Boesman's new opera being shown at La Monnaie.
Cast and Creative team for Au Monde at Theatre National
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