How to Die LaughingA Story in Seven Chapters. E-book. Formato EPUB Curt Goetz   -  L&Apos;Atelier Spectaculaire, 2021  - 

How To Die Laughing is a play in seven acts. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are left defeated by the circumstances of the mysterious death of Dr Praetorius – a celebrated professor killed in a car crash. The sudden appearance of Mr Shunderson, Praetorius’ factotum, only serves to confuse them further. But when Shunderson begins to tell the unbelievable story of his master’s demise, the fate of Praetorius gradually unfolds – as the four months before his eventual death are retold in flashback. However not everything is as straightforward as it sometimes seems: for instance, why was the respected physician hauled in front of a Board of Ethics the day before he died? Could it have something to do with the treatment of his student Maria Violetta? Or does it go further back to the opening of his practice in Peepnest? And why is Shunderson so secretive about his own past?Dr Job Praetorius was written in 1932, at a time when democracy was being challenged by extremists. But while the surface of the play is almost untouched by that turbulence, underneath lies a deep resentment of the unfolding political climate, and the controlling machinations of envy, greed, and stupidity. Curt Goetz (1888-1960) is a German theatrical institution, as a stage and film actor, a director, and a playwright. His plays echo the romanticism of Schiller and Goethe, the expressionism of Wedekind, the constructed wit of Oscar Wilde, and the natural drama of Ibsen. They are not sentimental but emotional, not intellectual but intelligent. Goetz wrote his plays “guided by the compulsion to create laughter”. This compulsion proved well placed; no other writer’s comedies have been as frequently incorporated into the repertoire of the German theatre in the last eighty years.

Shakespeare is dead, get over it!. E-book. Formato EPUB Paul Pourveur   -  L&Apos;Atelier Spectaculaire, 2021  - 

William loves Anna and hates globalization. Anna does not care about globalization, for she is an actress – but she loves William, the strongest opponent of globalization here and now, as well as the writer from there and then: William S., you know who. He, in turn, is not loved by William. William and Anne struggle to find each other and fail. They do not escape their fate – fate as represented in the urge to change, fight against tradition, helplessness in front of injustice, pursuit of one’s original dreams, necessity to redefine love, and burden of history. The play is a reconstruction of this story like after a stroke when everything is confused, when one must rebuild everything. It unfolds in fragments whereby a character tries to reconstruct what happened, why they got to that point. Many elements come up after a stroke, such as references from youth, memories from the past, and all that sort of things. It gets a bit mixed up.Due to Internet surfing, we are now thinking in networks. We link various information and build opinions. This mode of thinking allowed Paul Pourveur to find a new approach to the fragmentary form. He translates the reality as a proposition of possibilities, between determinism and indeterminism, where information is layered in nonlinear sequences, and creates several points of view, more reading choices. This leads to a dramaturgy like a cobweb, with thousands of connections towards various areas, where the theme seems to explode in a total event. Pourveur reflects on post-modern biographies and, in a sense, hangs them up to dry on the progress of a rather easy-going relationship. At the end, everyone is dead, and the author recommends for the last time: Live clean, think about the next one.