"I have started an affair with your son, on a train somewhere ina dark tunnel, his hand was underneath my dress between my thighs Icould not breathe/he took me to a white lakeside hotel somewhere highup, the lake was emerald/I could not stop myself I was in flames...."
Sex and death, eroticism and the imagination of violence, anendless train voyage, troubling seductions and possible rape,operatic arias and eruptions of poetry. This is the stuff of D. M.Thomas' 1981 novel, The White Hotel, a disturbing, intenselyimagined work that meshes psychoanalysis, Nazism, music and Europeanhistory into a powerful and nightmarish dream. This novel, alongwith excerpts from Jack Henry Abbott's prison memoir, "In the Bellyof the Beast," and Verdi's opera of passion and death, "La Traviata,"are the sources of Carbone 14's surreal dance-theater piece, "LeRail."
Carbone 14, an avant-garde company headquartered in Montreal, iscomposed of 10 actors, dancers and musicians, whose work involves theextensive use of sound and light, film and stylized movement. "LeRail," created in 1975, features a set that is bare except for 2 tonsof sand and the massive railroad track that is the central image in the piece. Itsscore ranges from rock to opera. We rarely get to see this kind ofdance-influenced work in Chicago, and for that reason alone, it isrecommended.
(Bilingual production in French and English.)
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