Guy Cassiers . ro theater

Guy Cassiers worked for two years on his stage version of Marcel Proust's monumental novel 'A la recherche du temps perdu' ('In Search of Lost Time'). The result is a series of four plays that impressively interweaves the two threads running through Cassiers' work: literature and a multimedia theatre idiom. Proust's world is transposed to the contemporary theatre space, in which, although the language remains intact, it has a new relationship with the visual and auditive space. deSingel is presenting all four parts of this imposing series of plays, the titles of whose parts refer to the main characters, as in the book itself. 'Proust 1: Swann's Way' presents Marcel's childhood memories, the main figures being his mother, his sweetheart Gilberte and her mother Odette Swann. The tormented love between Odette and Monsieur Swann is an ominous harbinger of Marcel's own love-life.