Friday, October 30, 2015
José Valverde at Amazon (23)
José Valverde at
Amazon (23)
WHAT’VE YOU DONE, HARRY?
QU’AS-TU FAIT, HARRY ?
A BILINGUAL EDITION IN OUR FOUNDING PAST
José VALVERDE, translation Jacques
COULARDEAU
Even when fully written a play is still and always
remains a project. Only its performance after working with the actors during
the rehearsals brings out the proper music with its tempos and its colors,
because for me theater is first of all a musical genre, a concerto whose
instruments, the actors, are not defined beforehand. This assertion might
surprise those who will note the play is very realistically inspired by
unluckily real events. And nothing is final? Actors change but audiences do
too, and the weather outside as seen in our inner time. A play only exists
during the short length of time of the performance. Only those who would try to
produce this “dramatic project”, the director and the actors could give a
temporarily more final version of it with or without my active support. Another
version exists in French with four extra characters, historical characters who
are here referred to without being present (Please ask for it if interested).
The play takes place in
the Oval Office at the White House, Washington, on August 6, 1945, that is on
the day of the dropping of the first atom bomb on Japan
La
pièce se déroule dans le salon ovale de la Maison Blanche à Washington le 6
Août 1945, c'est-à-dire le jour du lancement de la première bombe atomique sur
le Japon. Elle commence au moment de l’envol du B29 depuis l’ile américaine de
Tinian avec la bombe dans sa soute. Les
noms et les fonctions officielles des principaux personnages sont authentiques
mais leurs paroles sont de la pure imagination de l’auteur tout en étant
vraisemblables. Le Major HINSMITH est imaginaire. Les évènements et les
discussions qui ont eu lieu à la Maison Blanche sont à peu près connus mais ils
se sont déroulés pendant au moins une semaine. J’ai souhaité contracté le
temps, le lieu et l’action. De manière à donner aux évènements relatés
authentiques la dimension d’une tragédie classique qui implique unité de lieu,
unité de temps, unité d’action. Il s’agit de théâtre !
Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.fr; and all other Amazon stores.
KDP Edition
File Size: 1030
KB
Print Length: 129
pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Editions
La Dondaine; 1st edition (July 10, 2014)
Sold by: Amazon
Digital Services, Inc.
Language: French and English
ASIN: B00LPP3C2M
PRICE: US$10.05, EUR 7.39, ￥ 995, IndR375.00, …
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:31 PM 
