With the ensemble Le Balcon, composer Pedro García Velásquez and stage director Jacques Osinski transform Samuel Beckett’s radio play into a total experience—musical, mental, visual and auditory.

Pedro García Velásquez explores the tension between words and music. He creates a hybrid orchestra of humans and robots: blown glass, stone, metal, mechanical arms, robotics and signal processing all feature, following the radio broadcast. The stage is a music box, a fairy-tale castle ruled over by old Croak. Bob (Music) and Joe (Lyrics) do as they please. On stage, there is no set, only the musicians’ bodies to embody the music, the physical and magnetic presence of two actors, and the ghostly, haunting presence of the musical robots.

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3 Feb 22
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4 Feb 22
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5 Feb 22
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Pedro García-Velásquez | Words and Music - Version de Pedro Garcia-Velasquez
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Alphonse CEMIN | chef d'orchestre
Jacques OSINSKI | metteur en scène
Pedro GARCIA-VELASQUEZ | compositeur
Catherine VERHEYDE | éclairagiste
Corentin THOMASSET | technicien lumière
Marie BAILLY | régie générale
Brice DELORME | régie orchestre
Johan LEYSEN | artiste dramatique
Jean-Claude FRISSUNG | artiste dramatique
Etienne GRAINDORGE | ingénieur du son
Noé FAURE | RIM
Mayu SATO-BRÉMAUD | flûte
Stéphane MINGASSON | hautbois / cor anglais
Alice CAUBIT | clarinette
Manaure MARIN | cor
Pauline KLAUS | violon
Andrii MALAKHOV | alto
Askar ISHANGALIYEV | violoncelle
Louis SIRACUSA | contrebasse
Yua SOUVERBIE | flûte
Quentin D'HAUSSY | hautbois
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Le Balcon - Words and Music

Words and Music

Music Theater