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 3: Charlus' Way' tells about Marcel's introduction into the fashionable salons of Paris, where racism and hypocrisy reign supreme. His guides, the soldier Robert de Saint Loup and the homosexual aristocrat Baron de Charlus, are the exponents of a world in moral crisis.