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- Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: NHB Modern Plays
- Sprache: Englisch
Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment? With The Prisoner, the internationally renowned theatre director Peter Brook and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne ask provocative and profound questions about justice, guilt, redemption – and what it means to be free. The Prisoner opened at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in March 2018, before an international tour which included performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Theatre for a New Audience in New York. 'The most pioneering theatre director of the twentieth century'Independent on Peter Brook
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THE PRISONER
Peter Brookand Marie-Hélène Estienne
NICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Introduction
Original Production
Characters
The Prisoner
About the Authors
Copyright and Performing Rights Information
Introduction
Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Somewhere in the world a man is sitting alone in front of a prison.
Who is he? Why is he sitting there in front of a prison? Is it a deliberate choice? Is it a punishment? As for those who are inside, what crime have they committed? And what do they think of that man, facing them, free? Is he mad? Is he a fanatic? A criminal? What punishment for what crime?
What sort of justice is this? Who decided it? The man himself? Why is he allowed to stay there? These are questions for those who control the prison, and for those who are locked up. Is the man looking for redemption? Has he visitors? Is he tempted to run away?
In The Prisoner we are attempting to penetrate the richness of all these themes.
July 2018
The Prisoner was first performed at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, on 6 March 2018, with the following cast:
Hiran AbeysekeraEry NzarambaOmar SilvaKalieaswari SrinivasanDonald Sumpter
Writers and Directors
Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Lighting
Philippe Vialatte
Set Elements
David Violi
Costume Assistant
Alice François
With thanks to
Tarell Alvin McCraney and Alexander Zeldin
It was a production of C.I.C.T. – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in a co-production with the National Theatre of Great Britain; the Grotowski Institute, Wrocław; Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen; Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven; and Theatre for a New Audience, New York.
The production received its British premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, on 22 August 2018, before transferring to the Dorfman auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 12 September 2018.
Characters
VISITOR
WOMAN
EZEKIEL
NADIA
MAVUSO
GUARD
FATHER, voice-over
MAN
GUARD 1
GUARD 2
1.
VISITOR. I was for a while in a faraway country. Its capital in those days had magic, not the dreamlike magic of white walls and perfumes, but a rough brown magic, brown like the mud walls and the mud lanes, a magic of this world, rude and hard, enhanced by the quality of its people.
Once, walking in the market, I passed an old cobbler sitting cross-legged in his stall, pouring tea. As his hand was moving the cup to his lips, in an unbroken gesture, his movement changed its direction, and the cup was held out to me, an offering that was the natural answer to my indiscreet stare.
Another time I saw a dwarf sitting motionless. As I passed I paused to observe him from the corner of my eye. Long after his image remained with me as the embodiment of strength. For he was a man accepting totally who he was, where he was, what he was. A dwarf in infinity, like us all.
