Sunday, January 24, 2021
Gay et Tragique. Gay and dramatic.
ILYA AND VANIA
TWO LOVE BIRDS . . . OF A
FEATHER
Jacques Coulardeau
This story has to be
dedicated to time and life. It is the result of meeting many people in the
avenues of big
The songs were written to
the music Kévin Thorez had previously composed. All the songs are from
2011-2012.
The dramatic story of Ilya
and Vanya was written in 2013, integrating the lyrics of the songs as part of
the story. It is a full homage to a young man who does not like his name to be
quoted or uttered. Anonymous he will stay, just the way he likes it, and he
likes many things.
The two characters carry
endearing shortenings of Russian names. The names are masculine and the two
shortenings are built on a feminine ending. I was attracted by this ambiguity
for our birds of a feather.
Just as I was attracted by
the morbid merging love of Dracula and Mina. Love is, in a way, losing yourself
in the other while the other loses himself or herself in you. Losing and
loosening themselves into each other.
That’s the miracle of love
and it has little to do with orientation, though we always have to consider the
end from the very beginning and just as much as love is suffering, the end of
love is exquisitely painful. Dukkha!
The story in a shortened
version to hold within 80 minutes will come out soon at Zimbalam and most
platforms under the title Synchrosome II
Ilya and Vanya., with the voices of Kévin Thorez, Nad.X.Ka and Jacques
Coulardeau.
Amazon.com;
Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.fr; and all other Amazon stores. KDP Edition
74 pages
Publisher: Editions La
Dondaine (March 7, 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Digital
Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00IVIUAOE
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Price: US$8.17.99, € 6.11
