Hotel E-Book

Caryl Churchill

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough. Hotel is in two parts: In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people – tourists, couples and business people – spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement. In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance. This volume contains Churchill's libretto, plus articles on the making of Hotel.

Leseprobe

Caryl Churchill

HOTEL

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Introduction

Original Production

Acknowledgements

Hotel

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Introductions

CARYL CHURCHILL

Eight Rooms

I kept thinking about a lot of different stories all happening on stage at once. How to cope with all those people talking at the same time? Easily of course if they’re not talking but singing, and in any case I wanted to write an opera for Orlando. At some point I had the idea of a hotel where we’d see all the identical rooms superimposed as one room, all the people in the same space. And what sort of words should they sing? When I’m listening to sung words I like taking their meaning in without any effort, and I’m also happy to hear them just as sound. What I don’t like is feeling I may be missing something important if I don’t follow every word. What do I want from words in an opera? A situation, an emotion, an image. Some of the sections that had stayed with me most from (a 1991 piece with Orlando and Ian) had very simple words that could be taken in quickly and repeated. The little opera scene in (1994, music by Judith Weir) had words without the usual structure of sentences (welcome homesick drink drank drunk) but it was easy to understand what was happening. So in , how little need the characters say to let us know enough about them? I decided there would be no complete sentences, just little chunks of what was said or thought, that could be absorbed first time round or in a repeat or even never.