Le Balcon

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.