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Les
Naufragés
d u Fol Espoir
(Aurores)
The Castaways of the
Fol Espoir (Sunrises)
Thursday 23 – Saturday 25,
Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 August
6.00pm
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre
Tickets
£35 £30
4 hours 10 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/folespoir
Supported by
Théâtre du Soleil
Royal Highland Centre
‘The hours fly by like a skiff
in the Roaring Forties,
carried along on a gale
of pure theatrical genius…
one hell of a voyage’
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Performed in English and French with English supertitles
A play collectively devised by Théâtre du Soleil
Half-written by Hélène Cixous loosely based on a mysterious,
posthumous novel by Jules Verne
Ariane Mnouchkine Director
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre Music
A gold rush, a group of genocidal Indian hunters foiled by commando
nuns, a runaway revolutionary archduke and Darwin and Queen Victoria
playing imperial monopoly… D.W. Griffith meets Cecil B. DeMille –
and all the time, the lights are going down over Europe.
In a dance hall in the spring before the First World War, a socialist
visionary is shooting a silent film adapted from a Jules Verne adventure,
using cooks and waiters as his cast. Long before the ship the Fol Espoir
runs aground on Cape Horn, high idealism and base motives are vying
for the souls of all on board.
Ariane Mnouchkine’s work has rarely been seen in the UK because of
its sheer scale and complexity. Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir (Aurores)
transforms the Lowland Hall into a spectacular world of the imagination
and fantasy.
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Photo Michèle Laurent