Quartett
Quartett is a Play written by Heiner Müller in 1980.
Rewriting of the dangerous Connections of Choderlos de Laclos, the part proceeds, according to the initial Didascalie, in:
- a living room of before the French revolution.
- a bunker according to the third world war.
Merteuil and Valmont thus clash in this open and chaotic space time. The dialog is stretched and dilatte throughout the part. Merteuil starts to play Valmont, Valmont plays Mrs. de Tourvel then Merteuil plays Cécile de Volanges. A true quartet (or " quartet" in jazz) takes shape inside a duet. Müller plays and jubilee with the masks, the mechanisms of distance and the mirrors. It re-uses the narrative devices of Laclos which never let show through in its novel a voice of the author and a point of view.
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VALMONT : I believe that I could accustom me to be woman. Marchioness.
- MERTEUIL: I would like the capacity.
- ( a time )
- VALMONT: Then what. Let us continue to play.
- MERTEUIL: To play, us? What, let us continue?
- MERTEUIL: I would like the capacity.
Settings in scene
- Creation by Bob Wilson in 1980.
- Put in scene of Patrice Chéreau
- Put in scene of Hans-Peter Cloos (2003).
- Put in scene of Matthias Langhoff (2006).
- Put in scene of Bob Wilson with Isabelle Huppert and Ariel Garcia-Valdes (2006).
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