Amnesia / Petits Crimes Conjugaux
Based on Partners in Crime by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
A training for actor improvisation
- Translation: Neda Nezhdana
- Director: Volodymyr Kuchynsky
- Costumes: Natalia Shymin
- Set Design: VlodKaufman
«I have never understood what genre conjugal life belongs to: tragedy or comedy? My only certainty is that it belongs to the dramatic genre… When I started Partners in Crime, I was filling a gap – to my knowledge, there is no play about lasting love. You can find thousands of plays about the beginning of love, hundreds about the end of love, the best known (such as Romeo and Juliet) about both the beginning and the end, but there’s nothing about persistent, ongoing, hardwearing love, in other words, marriage. The theatre apparently only accepts debutant or retired lovers; it seems to confine itself to incipient and comatose love and never presents living love...In the play, amnesia is more than just a theme: it is a means of investigation and ultimately, a metaphor for husband and wife.» Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Les Kurbas Theatre’s production «Amnesia» is an ongoing improvisation for its actors to find their way into the roles they play. No two performances are the same. Like the evolution of relationship Schmitt’s couple explores in his play, the actors are confronted with different aims in investigating the role they play in playing roles, which is ultimately a metaphor for their union with the work.
IMPROVISATORS:
- Mykola Bereza,
- Tetiana Kaspruk,
- Andriy Kozak,
- Oleh Stefan,
- Natalia Parkhomenko,
- Marianna Podoliak
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
- Running time of every part: 2:30
- Setup time: 3 hours
- Rehearsal time: 3 hours
- Dismantle time: 1 hours
- Lights: 20 overhead
- Number of Actors: 6
- Technical and Artistic Staff: 3 (total number of participants 9)
- Theatre Space requirements: Italian Theatre with good acoustics
