L’Étang (The Pond), by Gisèle Vienne
Gisèle Vienne’s adaptation of Robert Walser’s bitter family drama, with Pina Bausch dancer Julie Shanahan and César winner Adèle Haenel, who play all ten roles, and music by doom metal band Sunn O))) frontman Stephen O’Malley. Vienne upends conventional notions of theater and the family to create an unsettling experience that wavers/oscillates between interiority and ... Read more