“Finished, it’s finished, it’s nearly finished, it must be nearly finished”… thanks to this extraordinary opening sentence, Endgame enters the history of theater as the straw that broke the (very old dramaturgic) camel’s back. According to Roger Blin, Becket “saw Endgame as a Mondrian painting (…)”. The analogy is that much more interesting in that Beckett drew some of his inspiration from the world of chess. This vision that he had of his own work, as an abstraction subjected to the rigorous rules of pictorial or logical order, explains in part why he kept such close control over his theatrical creations. And here, more than elsewhere, the passage from book to the stage is a question of execution. Alain Françon, like a conductor carefully choosing his orchestra, has gathered for this text, actors who have given Endgame the obviousness and the power of a Classic.
créé le 10 mai 2011 au Théâtre de la Madeleine.
à lire Fin de partie de Samuel Beckett, Les Editions de Minuit, 1957.
Cast
direction Alain Françon
stage and costumes design Jacques Gabel
lights design Joël Hourbeigt
Production Théâtre de la Madeleine
Production déléguée Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
En collaboration avec Scène Indépendante Contemporaine (SIC)
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