The Satin Slipper
The Satin Slipper (Le Soulier de satin) is a long play by the French dramatist and poet Paul Claudel, written in 1929. It was first performed on stage in 1943 (abridged), in a production by Claudel and Jean-Louis Barrault.[1] Its full running time is roughly eleven hours.
Plot summary
The scene is set during the Renaissance at the time of the conquistadors. The play is a love story dominated by the ideas of sin and redemption and the various characters, some divine and some comic, frequently engage in a dialogue as though between Heaven and Earth.
Productions
Nowadays it is rarely staged, because of its extreme length and its challenging production requirements. Full-length productions were staged in Paris, and the Avignon Festival in 1987,[2] and by Olivier Py at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris in 2009.
It was made into a seven-hour film in 1985 by the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
In May 2021 an opera version by Marc-André Dalbavie received its premiere at the Paris Opera, with a libretto by Raphaèle Fleury.[2]
See also
- Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
References
- ^ France, Peter (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Clarendon Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-19-866125-2.
- ^ a b Blanmont, Nicolas. Report from Paris. Opera, September 2021, Vol.72 No.9, p1138-40.
- Edition critique : Le Soulier de satin by Paul Claudel, Antoinette Weber-Caflisch, Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, n° 334, Les Belles Lettres, 1987.
External links
- [1] (in French)
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- L'Otage (1911)
- L'Ours et la Lune (1917)
- Le Pain dur (1918)
- Le Père humilié (1920)
- Le Livre de Christophe Colomb (1927)
- The Satin Slipper (1929)
- L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara (1938)
- L'Homme et son désir (1921)
- Christophe Colomb (1930)
- L'Orestie d'Eschyle (1936)
- Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (1938)
- Camille Claudel (1988 film)
- Camille Claudel (2003 musical)
- Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film)
- Camille Claudel (sister)
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