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Lädt ... Strawberries in January (2003)von Évelyne de la Chenelière
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A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro. Strawberries in January is a version by Rona Munro of Evelyne de la Chenelière's 1999 play Des Fraises en Janvier, Winner of the Québec Academy of Theatre's award for Best Original Play of 2000. The play is a romantic comedy about four romantically challenged singletons who stumble through contemporary Montréal in search of love. Rona Munro's version was first performed in August 2006 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in a co-production with Paines Plough as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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As someone just getting started to enter the world of reading plays as opposed to seeing them being presented, I am so happy that my first one was so readable. It is easy to see how spotlighting could work to shift the audience's attention as the scene shifts and focus moves to a different character. I can also see how this play could be pulled off with a minimum of props and setting. The banter of the characters is fresh and fun and I enjoyed how slowly the audience is brought to understand the relationships of the four characters. On the downside, but a minor one, I did find it a little confusing when the characters would shift from conversing on stage to making an aside for the benefit of the audience as there wasn't always written indications when the shift happened.
At the start there is an interesting comment from the playwright, regarding her thoughts on the play:
"When I am asked to sum up Strawberries in January, I never know where to begin. But what stays with me, when I think about it, is a feeling that happiness is often closer than we think, and less complicated than we claim. I'm also left with human frailty, our need to dream, our fear of not measuring up."
If I haven't sold you on this delightful play, maybe the teaser from the back cover will entice you to track down a copy: If only life could be like the movies! This fizzy concoction takes the classic ingredients of romantic comedy, love, humour, coincidence and fantasy and serves them up with a surprisingly touching twist in this tender and witty comedy by an extraordinary new voice form Quebec. ( )