Le Chemin solitaire

PERFORMANCE IN FRENCH

De Eenzame Weg

PERFORMANCE IN DUTCH


text Arthur Schnitzler (The Lonely Way)

French performance by and with Natali Broods, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Damiaan De Schrijver, Nico Sturm and Frank Vercruyssen

Dutch performance by and with Natali Broods, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Damiaan De Schrijver, Tine Embrechts, Stijn Van Opstal and Frank Vercruyssen/Adriaan Van den Hoof

costumes An D'Huys
lights Thomas Walgrave
set tg STAN
technic Raf De Clercq and Tim Wouters
translation French version Martine Bom
translation Dutch version Ger Thijs

thanks to Erwin Wurm

production tg STAN

premiere French version
14 november 2009, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse

premiere Dutch version
18 April 2007, Monty, Antwerp

Anatol (1893) - Familie (1893) - Liebelei (1895) - Die überspannte Person (1896) - Reigen (1897) - Halbzwei (1897) - Der Grüne Kakadu (1898) - Freiwild (1898) - Der einsame Weg (1904) - Komtesse Mizzi oder Der Familientag (1909) - Der Schleier der Pierrette (1910) - Das weite Land (1911) - Professor Bernhardi (1912) - Komödie der Verführung (1924)


Most people only live on the middle floor of their home, set up with all mod cons, where they're warm and snug. They rarely go down into the lower rooms, where they could encounter gooseflesh-inducing ghosts. They rarely climb the tower where they could suffer vertigo from looking down or gazing into the distance. Of course, some people love to dwell in the cellar, because they feel better in the dark that makes them shiver than in the light where they must face their responsibilities. Others love to climb the tower for an unbroken view over a boundless vastness that is for ever unreachable. But the most unfortunate people are those who run endlessly back and forth between the cellar and the tower, forever on the stairs, giving up to ruin and dust the rooms that are actually meant to be lived in.

from: Arthur Schnitzler, Aphorismen und Betrachtungen