Quartett
A show by Franck Dimech, performed by Cie Le Théâtre de Ajmer.
About this event
In 2003 in Marseille, Franck Dimech directed Heiner Müller’s Quartett at the Théâtre de Lenche, a text adapted from Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos, with actor Maurice Vinçon. Twenty-four years later, the director reunites with this essential 87-year-old Marseille artist to recreate the play.
To compose Quarttet, Müller kept only the four main characters: La Merteuil, Valmont, La Tourvel and Cécile de Volanges. In Franck Dimech’s production, they have become old, ugly, dirty and mean. With waxen complexions and faces made up like prostitutes escaped from an Otto Dix painting, their hearts have turned to stone and their souls into unfathomable frozen lakes, but their conscience remains intact. Atrociously sharp. As in Jean Genet’s The Maids, the theatre here is a game of mirrors in which the roles are interchangeable. The show is their final evening, the terminal stage of their affair. “Dead, dead, dead,” they cry!
Text Quartett, Heiner Mûller, Éditions de Minuit, translated by Jean JOURDHEUIL and Béatrice PERREGAUX Directed by Franck Dimech With Marcelle Basso and Maurice Vinçon
