Tomaž Pandur: Baroque

Festival in September

Based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Director: Tomaž Pandur
Dramaturgy and assistant director: Livija Pandur
Music: Silence (Boris Benko, Primoć Hladnik)
Choreographer: Nacho Duato
Set designer: Numen
Costume designer: Angelina Atlagič
Production: Teatro Fernán-Gómez / Centro Cultural de la villa de Madrid / The City of Madrid Culture Centre
Actors:
Blanca Portillo, Asier Etxeandía, Chema León

In September we expect Tomaž Pandur, who has in past years appeared at our festival with the shows Dictionary of the Khazars, Onehundred Minutes and Tesla Electric Company, this time he is coming with the dashing and eagerly expected show Baroque. A pre-French Revolution salon. The entire history of Western world in a shelter in the eve of the cataclysm of the Great Change. Outside, the world is cracking across the heavy stitches, forged through millenniums. Inside, silk is cracking under the touches of fear and beauty. Soon nothing will ever be the same. The Outside and the Inside will definitely become two remote Universes, while the human existence will be transformed into an eternal journey in the quest for their connection point. But in that particular moment, the Outside and the Inside are still for a short while one and the same Universe. Boudoirs and cities still speak the mutually comprehensible languages. World and Home are still one and the same place. Soon, people will never again be capable to communicate with a world outside of their own; they will be constantly searching for a possibility of co-existence, learning the languages of communication. Beauty will remain captured in the mirror, incapable of getting out of it. A valiant lie will never again be more sincere than the Truth. The salon/shelter is trembling in face of the thunder of the approaching change. Fear, love, hope and despair are to become a game without winners. The game will win over itself. Dangerous Liaisons are the first step of the journey through this Change. The dangerous liaisons of the philosophy in boudoir turn the ménage a trois into a quartet. What is needed is to revisit and meet for the first time all the old, once so familiar places. While waiting for this to happen, the desperate effort to preserve the familiar world as we always knew it turns into an elegant, bloody game of loveliness and cruelty.