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MARIE-HELENE ESTIENNE |
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Plays by Marie-Helene Estienne |
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| 1st Produced: | 10 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | Co-commissioned by barbicanbite10, London; C.I.C.T. / Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris; Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111790 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 performers | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from the works of Amadou Hampate Ba by Marie-Helene Estienne and Peter Brook | |||||
Synopsis: | In this transfer from Paris translated into English, two innocent numbers become a metaphor for sectarian warfare in a West African tale that at times takes on an almost biblical quality. As our narrator Amadou, played by Tunji Lucas, says at the start, in this 90 minute long performance, a bead becomes a bomb, as reason is overridden by blind faith. He is the disciple of wise teacher and priestly sage, Makram J. Khoury as Tierno Bokar, an old man who believes in peace and honour, at whatever cost to himself. As always with Peter Brook, the staging is simple: little more than a couple of red mats, some sand and a few barren trees occupy the large stage, together with a multi-national seven strong acting ensemble and composer Toshi Tsuchitori playing an assortment of primitive instruments from a cross-legged crouch. This leaves much to the viewer's imagination and there is ample scope to fill in the gaps with one's own perceptions and experience in a story told largely in parables. The gist is that through confusion, the traditional 11 repetitions of a Muslim holy prayer become 12. Two factions soon arise, increasingly belligerently supporting the old and new ways respectively. As if this wasn't enough to cause discord in a poor community, the French colonialists inflame the situation by taking sides. In all of this turmoil, it takes a brave man to follow his own principles heedless of the dangers of doing so and that man is Tierno Bokar. The symbolism of this play has great resonance in a world more than half a century on but still torn asunder by religious fundamentalism and intolerance. It seems even more meaningful and moving when one discovers that what seems like a cleverly constructed story is based on real lives. | |||||
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Grand Inquisitor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Theatre des Bouffes du Nord | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60783 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky | |||||
Synopsis: | Christ returns to Earth during the Inquisition but is arrested and flung into a cell, where he's visited by the 90-year-old cardinal who presides over the autos-da-fe. | |||||
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Suit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 May 2012 | |||||
Company: | A CICT/ Theatre des Bouffes du Nord production | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133460 | |||
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Genre: | musical play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A musical play by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, after the original story by Can Themba, adapted for the stage by Barney Simon and Mothobi Mutloatse | |||||
Synopsis: | In the dusty heat of a 1950s South African township, a young worker returns home to find his wife in bed with her lover. The lover escapes, leaving behind his suit. The only revenge the husband takes is to instruct his wife to treat the suit as an honoured guest. But how long can she endure this cruel and pitiless sentence. | |||||
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Ta Main Dans La Mienne (Your Hand In Mine) | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 2005 | ||||
Company: | CICT & Theatre des Bouffes du Nord for BITE 05 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43511 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carol Rocamora | |||||
Synopsis: | based on the letters of Anton Chekov and the actress Olga Knipper, for whom he wrote some of his most resonant roles. Spread over five short years from 1899 to 1904, the letters trace the friendship, love and eventual marriage of the celebrated dramatist and actress. But what makes the letters so poignant - and necessary - is that Chekhov was forced to winter in Yalta for his health while Olga practised her craft in Moscow. Separation lends the correspondence its emotional ache, affection and occasional asperity | |||||
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