Terrible abyss into the theater of the Hill, where, led by Andre Engel, Piccoli embodies Minetti, aging haunted the great actor by King Lear, a role played by Piccoli three years ago under the direction of the Andre Engel.
An evening of New Year's Eve, Minetti Piccoli-landed in the lobby of a hotel in Ostend where he is supposed to meet with the director of a theater that has offered to play "King Lear" role the actor repeats every night for 30 years. The director will not come. In the meantime, Minetti talking to the doorman of the hotel, a woman drunk and alone, a young girl who awaits her fiancé. It rehashing his life, his career ruined by his refusal to play the classics, he evokes the character Lear that haunts him since he played for the first time in 18 years, he speaks Mask Lear the sculptor Ensor created especially for him, he thinks about his theatrical vocation.
In part that Thomas Bernhard created in 1976 to actor Bernhard Minetti Minetti's character is puzzling: the theater director has he really made an appointment? Minetti is it brilliant or insane? Often directors do not settle this ambiguity. Here, early in the piece above, Engel removes the actor loses all trace of his greatness and takes the character toward mediocrity Minetti by making a doddering grandpa. By cutting the end of the room where the old actor disappears into the snow, Engel impoverishes the meaning of the piece.
So many similarities between the character, Thomas Bernhard Minetti and actor Piccoli - old age, King Lear, talent - disrupt and embarrass the viewer. When Piccoli rehashing his obsessions in a quavering voice is it the actor or the character who seems to get his text? The decor massive Nicki Rieti, a large old-fashioned hotel, which seems to crush the character only adds to the discomfort. This discomfort disappears during the show because the rate is less hesitant Piccoli, His voice brightened, and the doting old man from the beginning of the piece turns into a tragic hero. It is in the third game, when Minetti soliloquy with the girl (played by the luminous Julie-Marie Parmentier) it appears to regain its aura.
Thomas Bernhard Minetti, directed by Andrew Engel at Theatre on the Hill until February 7, 2009, then on tour to Rheims, Geneva, Berlin, Villeurbanne, Grenoble, Lille, Lausanne, Toulouse .
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