The Princeton French Theater Festival continues with performances of Lac. Writing for aspiring actors, Pascal Rambert invents a world that intensely mirrors their own. Lac, like so many of Rambert’s other plays, is a blank page, written in collaboration with and in the heart of the spectator. The play is projected onto the blank page by a series of monologues brought to life by 15 actors who want to act, write poems and plays. Here onstage close to a lake that resembles the one from Chekhov’s The Seagull, their ‘Treplev’ is dead, and they’re shaken and left bare, coping with this very death, each one telling his or her own story in succession as in a relay. This body transcends death in order to help unleash the speech of this group of European youths, wearing fitted tees bearing revolutionary slogans and effigies.
Directed by Senior Lecturer in French and Italian Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students, performances of Lac are on Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16 at 8:00 p.m. in the Class of 1970 Theater at Whitman College on the University campus. Performed in French. Duration: 1 hour, 50 minutes.
Admission is free but reservations are strongly recommended by sending an email to ftw@princeton.edu Subject Line: Festival.
