NOEMI SCHLOSSER
STAGE DIRECTOR, PLAYWRIGHT & COACH
Premiere, Antwerpen September 2007
“ A play of rare aesthetic beauty and intensity” Pol Arias
This coproduction between Noemi Schlosser and Raamtheater takes an entirely new approach to Jean Cocteau’s well-known play. Two women reflect on their stories, which take place in an anonymous hotel. One of the women waits in vain for some kind of reaction or attention from her lover. When no response whatsoever is forthcoming she resumes her painful course. While she sets out her dramatically naive and unintentionally humorous plea she whispers, cries out and sighs to a man who blissfully indifferent just goes on reading his newspaper. The other woman has lost everything, and can no longer face up to her lover. She starts to sing on her own and in doing so tells us her story... This time we are returned to the nineteen-fifties, and the audience becomes party to a voyeuristic glimpse of life in the hotel. Both women are IN TRANSIT and this time, after some thought, take their fate into their own hands. Each in their own way.
Interaction and non-interaction with audiovisual elements created by documentary-maker Eddie van der Velden (the man who made the prize-winning “A film about a band”) lend life and significance to the high-tech transit zone and heightens the voyeuristic experience of the audience. The use of film, monitors, computers, a variety of audiovisual techniques combined with the projected images of Vitalski help the audience to explore the transit zone in which the two leading actresses move as if it were a film set. Opera singer Valerie Vervoort sings texts by Verlaine. They tell their own story.
CAST & CREATIVES
Co-Production with Raam theater & Salomee Speelt
Concept Noemi Schlosser
Elle Noemi Schlosser
Singer Valerie Vervoort
Piano David van Looveren
Starring Laurent Popowski, Sura Dohnke, Bram van Graafland
Film Eddie van der Velden
Emil Vitalski
Coaching Steven van Watermeulen
Assisting director Gitje Bolsens
Dramaturg Gitje Bolsens
Light Anton Devilder
Setbuilder Luc van Riel
Costume Tereze Brichart
Poster Image Frieda Vanhauweart
Original play by Jean Cocteau
Music compositions by Poulainc, Debussy, Faure, Dhelius, Christoph, composition Mireille Capelle
Translation Noemi Schlosser with the support of Clara van den Broeck
PRESS
“ A play of rare aesthetic beauty and intensity” Pol Arias - VRT
This co-production between Noemi Schlosser and Raamtheater takes an entirely new approach to Jean Cocteau’s well-known play. Two women reflect on their stories, which take place in an anonymous hotel. One of the women waits in vain for some kind of reaction or attention from her lover. When no response whatsoever is forthcoming she resumes her painful course. While she sets out her dramatically naive and unintentionally humorous plea she whispers, cries out, and sighs to a man who is blissfully indifferent and just goes on reading his newspaper. The other woman has lost everything, and can no longer face up to her lover. She starts to sing on her own and in doing so tells us her story... This time we are returned to the nineteen-fifties, and the audience becomes party to a voyeuristic glimpse of life in the hotel. Both women are IN TRANSIT and this time, after some thought, take their fate into their own hands. Each in their own way.
Interaction and non-interaction with audiovisual elements created by documentary-maker Eddie van der Velden (the man who made the prize-winning “A film about a band”) lend life and significance to the high-tech transit zone and heighten the voyeuristic experience of the audience. The use of film, monitors, computers and a variety of audiovisual techniques combined with the projected images of Vitalski help the audience to explore the transit zone in which the two leading actresses move as if it were a film set. Opera singer Valerie Vervoort sings texts by Verlaine. They tell their own story.