Sylvain Maurice (Cie Provisional Title) features for a yes or for a no1by Nathalie Sarraute, short play written in the 1980s. It was only after having strongly involved, during the 1960s, with revealing works (the planetarium, the golden fruits …), in the Debates around the “new novel”, at this precise moment when literature thought about itself, that Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) risked in the theater.
She continued a fundamental intuition there, formulated in 1939 in tropisms, in a series of texts revealing contradictory fugitive movements, “whose incessant play constitutes the invisible framework of all human relationships”. Was it not, from the outset, to be upstream of the psychological resolution of the romantic tradition? In the midst of other pieces (silence, lie, it is there), for a yes or for a no, created on German radio, has already been mounted by among others Simone Benmussa, Jacques Lassalle.
What’s going on, if not a kind of scientific demonstration, in which two subjects, named H.1 and H.2, Old supposed friends, will tear himself into a dialogue of deaf people, each showing himself impermeable to the rain of words fallen from the other. This goes back to a receipt grievance. H.2 Having congratulated a personal success, H.1 would have welcomed the news in a half-fig half-grape tone, saying: “That’s it. The initial dispute lies in pronunciation. H.2 heard it condescending, even contemptuous. He takes the fly. The misunderstanding will crescendo, until the final non-return.
Such an acoustic anti -chase theater, of an intellectual aim above all suspicion (nevertheless, in happiness, of an irrefutable simplicity of approach) requires the putting into play of actors of an absolute mastery in the most flexible exhibition …
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