Staging "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead": Buzz, buzz

On the programme

Lundi 9 mai 2011 / Monday 9th May 2011

19h

Grange de Dorigny / Bâtiment Unicentre/ Université de Lausanne

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1h15) / théâtre EN ANGLAIS

adapté de Tom Stoppard

par The Unil Shakespeare Company, en collaboration avec l'Université de Zürich

Prix/Price: 5.-

Réservations/Bookings: 021.692.21.24 ou par email fecule@unil.ch

"Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.

Guildenstern: Or just as mad.

Rosencrantz: And he does both.

Guildenstern: So there you are.

Rosencrantz: Stark raving sane."

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," c'est la rencontre étincelante entre William Shakespeare et Samuel Beckett sous la plume amusée de Tom Stoppard, un amalgame inattendu entre deux univers théâtraux des plus opposés - le classique et le contemporain - amenés à discuter, sur le mode tragi-comique, de l'absurde splendeur de l'existence humaine.

Directed by Victoria Baumgartner & Nadia Fries

Jeu / Acting

Rosencrantz Nadia Fries

Guildenstern Victoria Baumgartner

Hamlet Dean Rozic

The Player Elodie Miserez

Organisational help Melissa Allcock

Photography by Zak Van Biljon

Music by Karim Khouw Zegwaart

Lights by Sylvain Laramée

The USC

The USC (Unil Shakespeare Company) was originally founded 3 years ago.

Indeed, 4 years ago a group of Erasmus students came to the University of Lausanne and staged "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It was lovely, and a great experience, and we played in the actual woods on campus. Exhilarating.

During the following academic year, all the Erasmus had gone back home-but a passion for Shakespeare had been kindled.

What's more, the annual "Shakespeare in Stratford/London trip" organized by the University of Lausanne proved an unextinguishable source of wonder and inspiration. We thence picked a play we had seen on the trip to try our hands at ourselves.

We decided to stage "The Merry Wives of Windsor"-in 3 months mind you. I think it fair to say it was, yet again, a success. We played in the campus bar, for a very "café-théâtre" ambiance.

Now last year we staged "As You Like It" at the Fécule, the Unil Theatre Festival-it was a full house.

This year is something of an experiment-with a smaller cast and a contemporary play. Indeed, fellow students are staging "Macbeth" in the context of the festival. It gave us other ideas, and opportunities to explore a contemporary repertoire-with a smaller cast, but no lesser expectations!

We look forward to meeting you!

Sunday, April 10, 2011