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Le Théâtre de Ajmer Les Écorchés

  • World Premiere

  • Nationality

    Taiwan/France

  • When

    2/28-3/1(Fri.-Sat.) 19:30

    3/1-2(Sat.-Sun.) 14:30

  • Where

    Experimental Theater

  • Production

    Le Théâtre de Ajmer

  • Ticket Price

    600

Two scripts within one play, the intertwining of disputes and craving

A play about the inevitable, desire, sensation, illusion and other people’s loss.

Les Écorchés is a play made of two plays, Disputes (1744) by French playwright Pierre de Marivaux and Crave (1998) by British playwright Sarah Kane, both of which are classics in revealing the essence of cruelty in life. The former is a fable, which starts with the encounter of several innocent young men and women, while the latter is like a complete cantata with SATB, in which several characters without names develop complicated relations among themselves. They share the common past with each other, but at the same time, confront with each other. Their intricate romance reveals the non-existence of “happy love”, which everyone craves for.

On the same stage, two sets of several characters in two different plays are played by the same cast. By such arrangement, the director aims to expose the sexual nature in different aspects of love. From sufferings to pains, a history of human beings is the history of tears. Craving is bound to be the evitable result of disputes. Just like the adult characters they pry into in the play, the audiences eventually find themselves, one after the other, estranged from but also immersed in the context of coldness, brutality, violence and depression.

Artists

Director Franck Dimech, twice awarded the grand of AFAA “Villa Médicis Hors les Murs”, established Le Théâtre de Ajmer at Marseilles, France, in 1993 and has since created productions highly acclaimed in the world. After the world premiere of Jumel at the Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre in 2010, two of his controversial plays, Woyzeck and Preparadise Sorry Now, have been put on stage in Taipei and attracted attentions and positive responses from the audiences.

  • Approx. 100 minutes without intermission.
  • Latecomers will not be admitted.
  • Performed in Mandarin without surtitles.
  • The performance contains nudity, flash lights and loud sounds. Viewer discretion is advised.
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