Culture vulture

I am a bit sorry to push nanaimo's previous post (read it! quick! it's so nice!) a bit further down on the page...but I have some bits that I would like to share with you since a long time - especially because 50% of our active bloggers have no real option in the near future to immerge in the beauties of theater and I would like to show these to compensate them :-)

The first one dates back quite a long time - we've seen it on stage about a year ago with tarelle. When I have accidentally seen a advertisment that one of my favourite actress*will be on stage in London, I kept nagging tarrelle so efficiently that he managed to get two great seats for us on the side balcony, just next to the stage. (Thanks so much for that!) The play was Tennessee William's (whom I like very much) Glass menagerie and she is seen talking about it in this video (from min 35:00 approximately). Awesome.

The second is a very recent one, a Peter Handke play that we've seen last Friday. Very repetitive and catharsis-less stuff: loads of actors crossing the stage in various costumes and creating various situations: like if you would be sitting in a café of a busy town-square, looking out. Hm. For that much money we could have even had a decent dinner in that café :-) It was quite interesting, though.

The third one never happened, at least not for me: if I had looked at the available programmes more attentively, I could have seen my idol on stage, who was performing just next door to us: Pina Bausch, choreographer and founder of Tanztheater Wuppertal, (one of the best contemporary dance companies) actress of Fellini and dancer of Almodovar. Just to give you a taste here is "Le sacre du printemps" from Stravinski and a small extract of the big classic, Café Müller. These were the two that they've danced in London last week. Other parts of the latter piece can be found here. I hope you like it. (It's not evident...)

*nana, do you remember her in "All that jazz"? She also plays in Titus :-)