Robert Wilson (U.S.A) / Text: Samuel Beckett
21,22/5｜Saturday,Sunday｜8pm
Macao Cultural Centre Small Auditorium
Tickets: MOP 200, 150
Text: Samuel Beckett
Direction, Set Design and Lighting Concept: Robert Wilson
Costume Design and Collaborator to Set Design: Yashi
Lighting Design: A.J. Weissbard
Sound Design: Peter Cerone and Jesse Ash
Associate Director: Sue Jane Stoker
Assistant Director: Charles Chemin
Technical Director: Reinhard Bichsel
Lighting Supervisor: Aliberto Sagretti
Sound Engineer: Guillaume Dulac
Stage Manager: Thaiz Bozano
Make-up: Claudia Bastia
Tour Manager: Laura Artoni
A project by Change Performing Arts
Commissioned by Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Spoleto52 Festival dei 2 Mondi
Produced by Fondazione CRT Milano
An old man sitting alone in his “den” on the day of his 70th birthday gets ready to make a recording about the past year of his life, as he has done on every birthday since he was young. Getting ready to make the new recording, he listens to a recording he made some 30 years before, at the end of a year that was perhaps the last truly happy one in his life.
World-renowned theatre and opera director Robert Wilson not only directs and designs, but also performs absurd theatre playwright Samuel Beckett's famous work, Krapp's Last Tape, his first appearance as an actor since his Hamlet: a monologue, last performed in 2000. The work provides a unique opportunity for his performing talent, being a blend of Wilson’s signature highly detailed and rigorous integration of movement, lighting and sound, and within that framework, a structure that leaves a great deal of freedom for the spontaneity of response that makes his live performance so exciting.
In the brief hour of this work, Robert Wilson presents Beckett's work in a few simple strokes to paint a vision of the world that is very particular and at the same time, universal.
Performed in English, with surtitles in Chinese and Portuguese.
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes, no interval