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Director :
Gérard Guillemin
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may seem a little outrageous to wish to reduce this powerful
work to an hour and a half’s performance but we wanted to show
how a novel can provide inspiration in the same way as
newsworthy item, not as a strictly theatrical event but as
constructed performance, a little like a film. Seven actors
represent a cast of sixty and, thanks to their talent, breathe
epic proportions into the show which sometimes leaves the
stage to take over a large screen symbolising the horizon,
thus allowing the play room to expand to the size of the novel.
From this tale of the gold rush could be drawn a classic
Western, hard and bitter like a play by Bertold Brecht, or a
funnier, lighter story like something by René Obldia. However,
to do so would be to betray the guiding basis of the popular
theatre of the Périgord. A theatrical evocation which, like
the Greek tragedies, has its choruses and leaders but which
also has the rhythm and energy of a cinematic decoupage.
The production was first mounted in 1999 and will be performed
again in 2006-7 or to order.
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