La Musica Deuxieme: Produced by blessed unrest (theatre for the adventurous)
Written by: Marguerite Duras; Translated by: Barbara Bray; Directed by: Jessica Burr. Costume by: Sera Bourgeau; Lighting: Jay Ryan; Sound: Laura Galindo;
La Musica Deuxieme: By, Marguerite Duras, a fantastic writer of lyrical and haunting poetry was a revolutionary and a feminist who wrote many novels, plays and screen plays and none of her higly praisedworthy and unique creativity should be missed like this brilliant play La Musica Deuxieme produced at the beautiful space, The drawing room, perfect space for this highly charged story of love, desire and it's abandonment. It's a story of two lovers, He (Taylor Valentine) and She (Matilda Woods) who have been separated for some time and meet agin in a hotel room. Many of Marguerite Duras novels have hotel rooms, sea side resorts, beautiful white muslin curtains on gorgeous French windows with the breeze which constantly make the curtains restless like the people in the room, Like the character, He, restless, anxious, talk in French on the phone anticipating something beautifully troublsome and then, the elegant Matilda Woods enter as She and the tale of passion, longing, desire, betrayl begins one more time...
In a very charged language they try to be vague about their dishonesty and still reveal how both of them cheated on each other, He, with some exotic foreigner and she abandoning him(at least that's how he took it) going to the bars all alone by herself. They have a dilema of tortured passion and longing, longing to possess and abandon and possess agian under all odds and then will come the betrayl and abandonement again, not only about the one you desire but of your own self.
The highly charged, tense and taught dialogue from both sides is all about the longing of being together at least one more time under all circumstanc but we can see the ultimate result of that longing will be the disater in the making the second time.
Duras's writing is all about un-fullfilled passion still longing, to be a winner but will encounter defeat again and again. The longing, which is a beutifully haunting word, often suggested in a metaphorical and a stream of consciousness manner will lose it's essence if the burning desire and the long lost passion still burning underneath unite. Marguerite Duras's longing has no union, it stays as longing and that strong emotion stays with you and you feel for the characters's anguish, pain, remorse and regret of love lost and their eagerness to possess. what they lost one more time but alas!
The, passion which leaves the lover naked without every touching, for sure lasts longer and this beutifully acted play by Taylor Valentine and Matilda Woods and directed to perfection by Jessica Burr, Lit beautifully in dim light by Jay Ryan will stay with me for a long time as well. I already feel a strong Desire to see it one more time. Everyone should rush to catch a performance of a great play by the most wonderful writer in the world.
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BINA SHARIF
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