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ParisChoice Theater
At the Fest
To the Festival d’Automne this month, Argentinian writer, director and provocateur Rodrigo Garcia brings his combative style of theater with “After Sun,” a corrosive vision of consumer society in the global age, with nods to Spanish classical painters Velázquez and Goya, presented by Madrid's Carnicería Teatro. Also featured: director Piotr Fomenko takes on Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” (running time 4 hrs), assisted by a dedicated band of former students at Moscow’s Gitis school of drama. Despite the novel’s epic themes and the production’s heroic history — the show was seven years in the making... via Russian winters, Soviet-era bureaucracy, the 1998 economic crisis and Vladimir Putin’s election as president — Fomenko creates a mesmerizing poetry based on simplicity.“After Sun” (in Spanish with French subtitles), Oct 14-29, Mon-Tue, Thur-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, 21 bd Jourdan, 14e, RER B Cité Universitaire, tel: 01 43 13 50 50, 9.50-18E. “Guerre et paix,” (in Russian with French subtitles), Oct 8-13, Théâtre Les Gémeaux, 49 av Georges Clemenceau, Sceaux (92), RER B Bourg-la-Reine (free bus into Paris after the show), tel: 01 46 61 36 67, 30E/26E. Festival d'automne: www.festival-automne.com or tel: 01 53 45 17 17 Studies in Stein Photographer and director Elizabeth Lennart blends media and genres in a two-part treatment of Stein’s wartime writings. The video opera “Accents en Alsace” combines archive footage of WWI-era Alsace, an original score by Marc-Olivier Dupin and Stein’s unmistakable linguistic rhythms. It is preceded by the epistolary play “Pour le pays entièrement,” a living collage of text, video and miscellany.Oct 8-23, Tue-Wed, Fri-Sat 8:30pm, Sun 3:30pm, MC93 Bobigny, 1 bd Lénine, Bobigny (93), M&Mac251; Bobigny-Pablo Picasso, tel: 01 41 60 72 72, 8-22E Hysteria With actor John Malkovich at the helm of this French production of Terry Johnson’s 1993 award-winning comedy, “Hysteria” is likely to be among the “must-sees” of the new season. The play peeks into the real-life meeting between the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and surrealism’s megalomaniac Salvador Dalí — in Freud’s home in London in 1938.Tue-Fri 8:30pm, Sat 4:30-9pm, Sun 4pm, Théâtre de Marigny, av de Marigny, M&Mac251; Champs-Elysées Clémenceau, tel: 01 53 96 70 00, 15-44E Mon île déserte After zany stand-up comedy à la française in “Incredibly Incroyable” (2000), actor and comic Bertrand Bossard turns to more serious matters in a monologue inspired by the six weeks he spent in a Bosnian refugee camp in Obonjon, a tiny island off the Croatian coast. A personal reflection on what Bossard saw and experienced living with 900 displaced persons, “Mon ïle déserte” adopts a humorous tone to explore a dark reality glimpsed but briefly from the outside.Oct. 17 to Nov 10, Mon-Tue, Fri-Sat 8pm, Thur 7pm, Sun 5pm, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, 21 bd Jourdan, 14e, RER B Cité Universitaire, tel: 01 43 13 50 50, 9.50-18E L’Ivrogne dans la brousse “The Palm-Wine Drunkard,” Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola’s 1953 classic tale combining Yoruba mythology and folklore with the author’s fertile imagination and humor, is faithfully adapted for the stage by Philippe Adrien.To Nov 3, Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 4pm, Théâtre de la Tempête, Cartoucherie, rte du Champ-de-Manœuvre, 12e, M&Mac251; Château de Vincennes, tel: 01 43 28 36 36, 9-18E compiled by Molly Grogan |
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