Séverine Chavrier's adaptation of Thomas Bernhard's novel The Lime Works is a musical poem about the collapse of a marriage and one man's paranoia in the spirit of Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick.
The lime works are a house: as white as a sterile chamber and as black as the forest around it. A couple have locked themselves up in there and made it their home. Mr. Konrad has a dream of writing a major essay about the sense of hearing, but is failing. He can no longer stand his wife, who is frail. He is incessantly busy organising the daily life, the outside world appears to be in league against him. Thomas Bernhard's novel was published in 1970 and is a venomous depiction of the collapse of a marriage, and at the same time the story of one man's paranoia. French star director Séverine Chavrier, whose work has never before been shown in Austria, stages it as a musical poem in the spirit of films such as Ingmar Bergman's Persona and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Music is everywhere in Chavrier's theatrical total work of art, from the voices that rise out of the cellar to the plasterboard panels that are being played like percussion instruments on stage.
Direction, Sound design Séverine Chavrier Translation Louise Servicen Set design, Props Louise Sari Props Rodolphe Noret Light design Germain Fourvel Sound design Simon d’Anselme de Puisaye Video design Quentin Vigier Costumes Andrea Matweber Bird training Tristan Plot Intervention IRCAM Augustin Muller Forest design Hervé Mayon – La Licorne Verte Direction assistance Ferdinand Flame Set design assistance Amandine Riffaud Set construction Julien Fleureau, Olivier Berthel With Adèle Joulin, Laurent Papot, Marijke Pinoy, Florian Satche (musician) Video management Typhaine Steiner Stage manager and set Mathéo Gastaldello World premiere March 2022 Teatro Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona)
Production Development Centre Dramatique Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire Production from 2024 Comédie de Genève Co-production Théâtre de Liège – Tax Shelter Programme of the Belgian government, Théâtre national de Strasbourg, ThéâtredelaCité – centre dramatique national Toulouse Occitanie, TANDEM scène nationale (Arras-Douai), Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona) With the support of Région Centre – Val de Loire In collaboration with Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe (Paris), JTN – Jeune Théâtre National (Paris), ENSATT – Ècole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (Lyon), Ircam Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (Paris) Supported by DICRéAM
The performances in Vienna are supported by Institut francais d’Autriche.
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