The Sentence
The Sentence (red ink) Play in Three Acts "La Sentence" was first performed in Paris after the author' s death as an oratorio created and directed by master n flutist Francois Veilhan, protégé, devotee and close friend of the author. This is what he tells us: "A few sentences to tell you why "The Sentence" by Charlotte Delbo is a marvelous theatrical moment for me, why I wished for years on end to work the text . ..There is something within it resembling an item of clothing that remained in the shadow of a closet after the death of a beloved friend, something immuvable and colored, solemn and shared. Acquaintance with a precise event, ...birthes in the author the necessity for a "theatrical space." Not exactly a play, as we know them, with contradictions, confrontations, unity, alterity, characters and action. No, more a theatrical space..."
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The Sentence
The Sentence (red ink) Play in Three Acts "La Sentence" was first performed in Paris after the author' s death as an oratorio created and directed by master n flutist Francois Veilhan, protégé, devotee and close friend of the author. This is what he tells us: "A few sentences to tell you why "The Sentence" by Charlotte Delbo is a marvelous theatrical moment for me, why I wished for years on end to work the text . ..There is something within it resembling an item of clothing that remained in the shadow of a closet after the death of a beloved friend, something immuvable and colored, solemn and shared. Acquaintance with a precise event, ...birthes in the author the necessity for a "theatrical space." Not exactly a play, as we know them, with contradictions, confrontations, unity, alterity, characters and action. No, more a theatrical space..."
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The Sentence

The Sentence

by Charlotte Delbo
The Sentence

The Sentence

by Charlotte Delbo

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The Sentence (red ink) Play in Three Acts "La Sentence" was first performed in Paris after the author' s death as an oratorio created and directed by master n flutist Francois Veilhan, protégé, devotee and close friend of the author. This is what he tells us: "A few sentences to tell you why "The Sentence" by Charlotte Delbo is a marvelous theatrical moment for me, why I wished for years on end to work the text . ..There is something within it resembling an item of clothing that remained in the shadow of a closet after the death of a beloved friend, something immuvable and colored, solemn and shared. Acquaintance with a precise event, ...birthes in the author the necessity for a "theatrical space." Not exactly a play, as we know them, with contradictions, confrontations, unity, alterity, characters and action. No, more a theatrical space..."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781669811480
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Publication date: 03/10/2022
Pages: 78
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.19(d)
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