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An Unknown Beckett Premiering at NTB
We Are the Last 5, the latest show within the 9G Programme at NTB - dedicated to young theatre creators, at its third edition –, shall premiere on 6 and 7 October 2016, in the Small Hall.
Director DragoČ MuČoiu proposes a visual and histrionic experiment, building on 5 short texts, almost unknown, written by Samuel Beckett. The author’s guidelines are observed with an almost absurd precision (because he assumes the lack of any mercantile orientation), 5 actors are added, functioning with the minuteness of the watch hands, much auxiliary-illusory technique is overlapped... and the outcome is a worryingly contemporary show. Why worryingly? Because it is about our everyday life, meeting the... theatre of the absurd. Common points: lack of real communication, automation of reactions, fear of immediate action, fear of love, fundamental boredom, again automation... the roads of Sisyphus experienced by every one of us real-time. Beckett’s short plays create a surreal world, but familiar at the same time, a world in which total control is undermined, and redemption may come from the most unexpected places.
We Are the Last 5 is a powerful show about the human condition, about our actions and thoughts in the attempt to live, alongside the others, in society. A true challenge both for the artistic team, as well as for the audience, everything following Beckett’s strict, mathematic instructions.
”In order for the spectator to have complete freedom to read and interpret at will and where possible what he sees, we, the creation team, had to refrain from any form of interpretation and focus on conferring a faithful expression upon Beckett’s writing”. DragoČ MuČoiu
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
