Sound Of Silence
A monologue with silent movie & electronic soundscape 

Imagine yourself in a fight with your lover, unable to answer him back, to utter a word…and later that feeling that we all know so well, to be lying in bed on that night after the fight and to know exactly what you should have said. In this version, we live that moment with the actress. The man is a projection. For one time she controls the situation and the conversation she says everything she wasn't able to say before. She directs the movie of the man as well as the music and the lights. For one time she is victorious. She tells him everything she wants, and after all those months of abuse… she leaves him.

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Noémi Schlosser plays Cocteau and the Belgian stand-up comedian Vitalski stays mum for an hour.  Interaction and non-interaction with audiovisual elements created by documentary-maker Eddie van der Velden 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 leading actress move as if it were a film set. Music composed by Tim Vets is loosely based on the standard “autumn leaves’ mixed with jazzy tunes and new electronic sound.

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In co-production with ShPiel, Chicago, Theatre of Identity with special thanks to David Chack

With the support of the Flemish Government and the Alliance Francaise of Chicago

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"...the production does a great job with the text; the acting, the direction, the sets and costumes and lights.  Noemi Schlosser finds all the deep crevices and crannies in this woman’s broken psyche and inhabits them...This is a well-put together piece of theatre.  It is distinctly modern in its staging, but wholly universal in its storytelling and its appeal.  It is certainly a piece that must be talked about at a pub with one’s companions afterwards – because discussion bears great fruit with this play."

Highly Recommended - Will Fink, TheatreInChicago

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"The Sound of Silence doesn't make a lot of noise but it is still poignant." Katy Walsh, Chicago ONE 

"The story is about an attractive nightclub singer (played beautifully by Ms Schlosser who is one very sexy woman) who confronts her cheating lover who via video projection ignores her every word and action. This is a powerful study of a woman who despite her love for her lover, feels nothing in return."

Al Bresloff, Around the Town Chicago 

 

"Schlosser is building something of her own, and that makes it an engrossing event....the show gains momentum slowly. But near the end there are some gorgeous moments...All in all, a strong piece of theater." John Dalton

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