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Roy has worked with Brigitte Haentjens on 3 previous occasions (Le Chien, Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule, True West), but has never been in a play with Céline. |
"The play is just
the way I want to live. I don't want to deny any facet of life, or
of humanity. I don't want to live in Disneyland" |
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Blasté was the production chosen to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sybillines. It was 3 years in conception - Roy agreed to it before he was offered Shake Hands with the Devil. The promotional photos for the posters were published in August 2007. Rehearsals started on 27 November 2007. The 15 performances staged between 18 March and 5 April 2008 were a sell out. |
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Sarah Kane was born in 1971 in Essex,
England into a staunchly Catholic family. Her father was a journalist.
She was 24 years when her first play, Blasted, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre. She wrote 5 plays and 1 screenplay before hanging herself by her shoelaces in a bathroom in a psychiatric hospital at the age of 28. |
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"Roy gently poked fun
at my desire to see a little bit of hope – I claimed that Ian had
changed by having been subjected to what he had previously dished out.
But Roy didn’t see Ian as having changed. He thought he was still a
manipulator despite his imminent death. He said that Ian was only being
nice to Cate because he needed her to be there to help him to die." Brigitte Haentjens (email to Stéphane Lépine) |
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"But fortunately,
freedom of speech is greater in the theatre. There's not really a
"rating" for our shows like there is for
Tout est
parfait at the cinema, for example.
There's less control on entry. You can say anything on stage, take
a different view of the world." Céline Bonnier (Le Devoir) |
