15 - 16/3/2005 20:00
Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium
15, 16/3 (Tuesday, Wednesday)
Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium
8pm
Les Deux Mondes (Canada)
Consultant-Dramaturge and Writer:
Normand Canac-Marquis
Music and Sound Environment: Michel Robidoux
Direction and Visual concept: Daniel Meilleur
Photography and Video: Yves Dubé
With Yves Simard, Caroline Lavigne
and Noëlla Huet, Mezzo-soprano
In
a letter to her daughter, a mother reveals why she abandoned the girl at birth
to flee her homeland, a country torn apart by a conflict that transformed her
lover into an enemy and a deserter, while she herself joined the resistance. But
war will reach and maim them both, each one choosing an escape from an
unbearable reality once peace returns.
Within a constantly changing visual
environment created by shadows, video projections and an ingenious use of props
and lights, two actors and a mezzo-soprano perform this musical drama which
draws parallels between the birth of a couple’s love and the rise of a deadly
conflict that shatters individual destinies. Leitmotiv calls upon poetry
and our imaginations to provoke a confrontation between the forces of life and
death.
Leitmotiv was the hit of the 1997
Sante Fe Stages Festival in New Mexico, the 1998 Israel Festival Jerusalem, and
the Images Festival 1998 in Arnhem, Holland.