by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
directed by DOMINIQUE PITOISET
French text : Jean-Michel Déprats
lightings : Christophe Pitoiset
sound : Jean-Christophe Chiron
make up, costumes and dolls : Kattrin Michel
music : Antonio Vivaldi recorded by Europa Galante
with Houda Ben Kamla, Ruggero Cara, Andrea Nolfo, Mario Pirrello, Dominique Pitoiset, Sylviane Röösli
dolls technicians : Inka Arlt, Melanie Romina Ancic, Kathrin Blüchert, Patricia Christmann, Ulricke Monecke
length : about 2 hours
Cast
For this version of The Tempest, Pitoiset has assembled a cast of French, Italian, German and Tunisian actors. Each actor performs in his or her own language, each is used in a distinct style - the verve of commedia dell'arte, the psychological realism of the French School, the concrete theatricality of the Brechtian School. For Dominique Pitoiset, Prospero's island is theater itself, and therefore an illusion, conceived and animated by the old magician. All action is the same as the final dream, vaguely initiatic, which an old, blind father gives to his daughter from the depths of his mental palace.
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