YAACOBI ET LEIDENTAL
A comedy in 30 scenes and 12 songs by Hanokh Levin directed Frédéric Bélier-Garcia translated from the hebrew by Laurence Sendrowicz sets designed by Sophie Perez
CRÉATION
avec Manuel Le Lièvre | David Migeot | Agnès Pontier | assistante mise en scène Caroline Gonce
Production Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers Centre Dramatique National Pays de la Loire avec le soutien de la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations | Le texte de la pièce est publié aux éditions Théâtrales | Théâtre choisi I
du lundi 29 septembre au dimanche 12 octobre 08 | relâche 5 et 6 octobre | du lundi 10 au Samedi 15 novembre 08 du lundi au mercredi | 19:30 | du mercredi au samedi | 20:30 | dimanche | 16:00 | Scène de répétition NTA
When a guy decides to "get a life," the complications pile up. He’s got to stop playing dominos, break with his best friend, and find a muse. It’s a path fraught with danger, on which you soon learn to distrust women who claim to be pianists, and friends who offer themselves as a wedding gift. In this zany, tender, wise, and highly entertaining and offbeat romantic comedy set to klezmer music, Levin translates the classic love triangle into an engaging, and unforgettably bitter-sweet cabaret show.
This strange business of living
Levin’s musical play is a magnificently hilarious and sardonic children’s story for adults composed of 30 "scenes of a marriage" that are at once funny, touching, and bitter.
The play’s three characters act without forethought in what would be a potboiler Hollywood-style romantic comedy if it weren’t for Levin’s relentless highlighting of the absurdity and insanity of it all, which delightfully overwhelms the plot line at every turn.
How does a man go about finding a mate? How does a woman go about catching a man? And once the man has found the women of his dreams, how does he get rid of his best friend? As we watch this tale unfold, we identify with each of the three characters in turn, and recognize in their wooly-minded strategies our own attempts to get a hold on life - or at least to feel as though we’re alive.
I have enjoyed laughing along with, and being touched by, this Levin comedy that speaks of life and our lives as a three-way Greco-Roman boxing match the rounds of which are punctuated by songs.
Frédéric Bélier-Garcia
