"L'AMANT" (The Lover) BY MARGUERITE DURAS - THEATRICAL ADAPTATION (live streaming from Vancouver, 45 min)
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THIS SHOW IS PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH KLEINE CIE PRODUCTION
This autobiographical fiction tells the story in the form of a voyage into the author’s memory, her adolescence in French Indochina (present-day Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and part of south China that was colonised by France between 1887 and 1954). The decline of the French empire is the backdrop to this tale of passion between a 15-year-old girl and a man from north China. Actress Anaïs Pellin brings us fragments of the novel by Duras, the story of an ambiguous passion and a wrenching family destiny. Alex Mah’s musical score is interwoven with the author’s narrative, spoken by Anaïs Pellin, building a dialogue between her voice and the music in this theatrical work directed by Émilie Leclerc.
"L’Amant" (The Lover) by French author Marguerite Duras was published in 1984 and won the Prix Goncourt that same year, and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway award in 1986.
Credits for the play
A Kleine Cie. production presented by and with the support of Le Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver. A theatrical creation by Emilie Leclerc and Anaïs Pellin / Text: excerpts from Marguerite Duras' book "L'Amant" (The Lover) / Director: Emilie Leclerc / Cast: Anaïs Pellin / Music: Alex Mah / Dramaturgy consultant: Jovanni Sy / Lighting designer: Jeremy Baxter / Stage manager and director assistant: Cory Haas / Stage designer and costumes: Jennifer Stewart
THIS SHOW IS PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH KLEINE CIE PRODUCTION
This autobiographical fiction tells the story in the form of a voyage into the author’s memory, her adolescence in French Indochina (present-day Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and part of south China that was colonised by France between 1887 and 1954). The decline of the French empire is the backdrop to this tale of passion between a 15-year-old girl and a man from north China. Actress Anaïs Pellin brings us fragments of the novel by Duras, the story of an ambiguous passion and a wrenching family destiny. Alex Mah’s musical score is interwoven with the author’s narrative, spoken by Anaïs Pellin, building a dialogue between her voice and the music in this theatrical work directed by Émilie Leclerc.
"L’Amant" (The Lover) by French author Marguerite Duras was published in 1984 and won the Prix Goncourt that same year, and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway award in 1986.
Credits for the play
A Kleine Cie. production presented by and with the support of Le Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver. A theatrical creation by Emilie Leclerc and Anaïs Pellin / Text: excerpts from Marguerite Duras' book "L'Amant" (The Lover) / Director: Emilie Leclerc / Cast: Anaïs Pellin / Music: Alex Mah / Dramaturgy consultant: Jovanni Sy / Lighting designer: Jeremy Baxter / Stage manager and director assistant: Cory Haas / Stage designer and costumes: Jennifer Stewart