His entire artistic approach aims for just this: to allow each individual to tell his or her story within the great story. to Comedy Geneva Before the Passage Theater, in Neuchâtel, in February, a couple lives and brings this experience to the public through their choral love story. Often in unison, sometimes in canon, Alma Palacios and David Jesselson are the masterminds of this verbal song.
Gray and superstitions
Waltz of Superstitions and Spells. When we love ourselves and know we are threatened, we invent rituals to protect ourselves. in Chorus of loversThis is the movie Scarface Which works like a charm and the couple decides to never watch the ending. They often repeat: “We have time.”
That’s because they didn’t have enough time. Very early in their relationship, an asthma attack nearly killed the wife and mother of the house. The first story, of the couple who stand before us on the small stage of La Comédie in a state of extreme poverty, is a race against time. He ran, almost flying to death, feeling “a weight like an elephant on her lungs.” Words flow and images move. The car that hurtles into town, the truck that appears on the right – or on the left, the lack of memory is also part of it – and the machines that keep us alive. we are here. By the rhythm and rhythm of the words as much as by the meaning.
Train of ideas
In addition to facts, ideas are also reported. On the verge of suffocation, the wife regrets the time wasted on trivial matters, and imagines what she could change if she survived. She also notices that her life is not passing before her eyes, on the threshold of death, and in a typical game of Thiago Rodríguez, she lists all the memories that do not come to her consciousness automatically. An opportunity for the director of the Avignon Festival to remind us that we are the authors of our lives, and that we can always choose what we want to say (to ourselves) and how we want to say it…
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Holy union
In this regard, the offer is a permanent denial. But it is also a celebration of sacred unity. With this harmonious speech that the duo of actors has been practicing since 2020, the date of the reproduction of this play in 2007, the theatrical gesture speaks of ideal adequacy, which allows us to overcome illness, disagreements, and separation. Safari life what.
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The fourth song written after the first three announces the lovers’ retirement. At this moment, upon entering the forest, they move from the human kingdom to the plant kingdom, in a very present desire for abstraction. Then, disappearing into the green background of the stage, the two actors conjure the beauty of the finale, the curtain that we draw together on a life lived “in chorus” and which passed with one beat.
Chorus of lovers ,Comedy GenevaUntil October 15; Traffic theaterNeuchâtel, February 23, 2024.
