Heiner Goebbels - I Went To The House But Did Not Enter
From: Wednesday, 28th April 2010
To: Saturday, 1 May 2010
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Our Review:
Simon Thomas - 28 April 2010
Anyone interested in contemporary opera or music theatre is spoilt for choice in London at the moment. ENO’s Elegy for Young Lovers and the Royal Opera’s Powder Her Face both exhilarate and bite10 at the Barbican now adds Heiner Goebbels’ latest theatre piece to the mix.
I Went To The House But Did Not Enter can hardly be described as an opera, in fact the music plays distinctly second fiddle to theatre and poetry, but that’s typical of the German composer’s boundary-blurring approach. We know that he’s capable of large-scale orchestral work so the decision to step back and allow the texts to speak for themselves is clearly a deliberate one.
Those in question are T S Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock, Maurice Blanchot’s The Madness of the Day and Samuel Beckett’s fragmentary late prose text Worstword Ho, with a snatch of Kafka thrown in. The first and last are intoned to th...
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Theatre Vidy-Lausanne (Swtzerland) (Producer)
Heiner Goebbels (Director)
Klaus Grunberg (Design)
Klaus Grunberg (Lighting)
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