Am Samstag, den 23. September bin ich spontan ins Theater. Matinee für 15€ - was soll man sonst an einem langweiligen Samstag machen. Texte für Uni lesen kann man ja sonst auch...
Hab mir also Empress of India angeschaut.
Dachte dabei eher an eine aufwändige, protzende Produktion die in längst vergangener Zeit spielt...
Gott sei Dank war dem nicht so...
Die offizielle Seite der
Druid Theatre Company sagt (zumindest momentan) noch Folgendes dazu:
Hot on the heels of its recent, sell-out success with the critically acclaimed DruidSynge at New York's Lincoln Center Festival, Druid returns to Galway's Town Hall Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival (at the Abbey Theatre) this Autumn with the world premier of a play by one of Ireland's most talented young playwrights Stuart Carolan.
Empress of India is a black, dark comedy where the profane, the comic and the anguished combine to shattering effect - to ask uneasy questions about faith, belief and abandonment. This stunning new play introduces us to the world of Seamus Lamb, celebrated Irish Hollywood actor, who watched his wife die and, abandoned to grief, took no further part in the lives of Matty, Martin and Kate, their children. Martin's now a journalist in Dublin. Matty's in New York. Kate has headed for London. Seamus waits on the film role that will restore him to fame, but time has other ideas...
Directed by Garry Hynes, Empress of India is presented by arrangement with Galway Arts Festival - the play was originally commissioned by the Festival and Rose Parkinson - and this production features Sean Mc Ginley in his first theatre appearance in more than five years. McGinley, a member of the founding Druid company of actors, joins the new Druid acting ensemble with actors of a new generation including Sarah-Jane Drummey, Aaron Monaghan, Tadhg Murphy, Catherine Walsh and also Sarah Greene.
Ich muss das Stück auf jeden Fall nochmal lesen - sehen wird ja schwierig. Hab noch mit dem Gedanken gespielt mir für die Abendvorstellung an dem Tag (war die Letzte!) noch eine der Restkarten zu kaufen...
Ein geniales Stück, grandios umgesetzt. Super Schauspieler, vor allem
Aaron Monaghan hat mich sehr beeindruckt. Wahnsinnig überzeugend.
Und siehe da,
Sean McGinley, in der Rolle des Vaters, hat auch in
The Wind That Shakes the Barley mitgespielt.
Das Stück, die Darbietung, hat mich so bewegt wie schon lange nichts mehr.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upwards to God’s throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach
(Victorian poem; Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
A man, his wife, his brother, his two sons, his daughter
Dead
His madness the mark branded upon him to show that his soul is empty.
Sometimes he would remember.
Of the times long past
but then again within grasp.
Telling his son he loved him – to him, who’d collapsed, literally, under his father’s madness, under his incapacity to show him he loved him
What good are the words of a delusional man?
His other son raging with the thought almost come real as so he could show it to his raving father for he couldn’t speak it:
that his sister was forever lost.
No consolations Hail Mary, mother full of grace – why wouldn’t you listen?
“Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go”
Where do we go to when everybody’s dead?
What to do when I myself feel so much rotting dampness
withering deep down within my soul
which has long gone to a more pleasant sanctuary?
unnoticed
Is it bad trying to console oneself with laughter
comfort
sex
weird thoughts
hypotheses gone mad
comparisons so abusive when uttered
just to distract from a greater truth.
What keeps us from admitting
is the fear that everything is even worse than what we feel right now.
In the end it will be over.
There will be dead, withering corpses but we’d like to think of them as neatly put into their last refuge and their souls arising to heaven.
There will be those who are left behind – wishing they could share the fate because they romanticise rotting six feet below the surface.
If praying helped, would they really be willing to join?
Hail Mary, Mother full of Grace,
Give us hope.
Jesus Christ, why does she do that?
God, Lord: where is the spirit to make sense of all this?
In the end,
we ourselves have to face the deeper truth.
Will we ever come to find it?
Will we ever want to face it?
Will we ever be strong enough to do so?
roisindubh - 27. Sep, 20:42