Robert Wilson

Heiner Müller / Robert Wilson

Quartett

Archive 2006
Theatre

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Quartett
by Heiner Müller
Translated by Jean Jourdheuil, Béatrice Perregaux
New production
Directed by: Robert Wilson
Original Music, Michael Galasso
 Artistic collaborator: Ann-Christin Rommen
Set design: Stephanie Engeln
Costume design: Frida Parmeggiani
Lighting design: AJ Weissbard
With Isabelle Huppert, Ariel Garcia Valdès and Rachel Eberhart, Philippe Lehembre, Benoît Maréchal
Co-produced by Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Comédie de Genève and Théâtre du Gymnase / Marseille
With Festival d’Automne à Paris

Based on Choderlos de Laclos’ ageless epistolary novel about deceit and manipulation, a quartet of another kind unites two stars of French cinema and stage in this highly ironic dialogue. Boiled down by the playwright to its basest and cruelest traits, Quartett is directed by a visionary director who stages this schizophrenic score for the second time.

See also

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah Bernhardt
novembernov 5 – 16

Robert Wilson
PESSOA – Since I've been me

Theatre

The hero of this new work by Robert Wilson is Fernando Pessoa. And a paradoxical hero at that. The Portuguese poet spent his life 'multiplying himself', inventing heteronyms, or fictitious authors, to whom he attributed works he himself wrote. He even went as far as to invent relationships, either amicable ones or from master to disciple, between his different avatars.