period
21. - 23. Nov 2019
time
20.00 hrs. 21 Nov. Performance
19.00 hrs. 22 Nov. Conversations
20.00 hrs. 23 Nov. Performance
location
Studio Ramli Hassan
8A, Jalan Tepian Tunku, Taman Tunku,
50480 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ticket
A capriccio on Goya
We are in Bordeaux, in the house of a deaf man, Francisco Goya. It is the last night of his life. His lover for more than thirty years, the lively Leocadia Zorilla, unleashes her imagination and her memories.
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is considered the most important Spanish painter and engraver of the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. During his long career, he was a committed commentator and chronicler of his era. He died in exile in Bordeaux, in France.
PERFORMANCE
Actors: Else Marie Laukvik, Rina Skeel, Frans Winther
Text: Else Marie Laukvik, Eugenio Barba
Stage design: Else Marie Laukvik, Rina Skeel
Stage design adviser: Jan de Neergaard
Assistant director: Rina Skeel
Director: Eugenio Barba
Duration:
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A 2019 production by Masakini Theatre (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia),
Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium / Odin Teatret (Holstebro, Denmark)
Tickets
RM 150
Performance 21 Nov. at 20.00 hrs.
incl. dinner at 19.00 hrs.
RM 50
Conversations 22 Nov. at 19.00 hrs.
RM 50
Performance 23 Nov. at 20.00 hrs.
If you would like at table of 8 on either 21 Nov or 23 Nov- call us at +60 012 3131733 or book via www.theatreantics.com.
Organiser & Contact
Massakini Theatre Company
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
www.masakinitheatre.com.my
Supported by the Embassy of Denmark, Kuala Lumpur.
The Deaf Man’s House is a theatre performance-capriccio about the biography and works of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Goya’s life unfolded during the political upheavals in Europe at the end of the 18th century, in the Age of Reason and Romanticism, the Inquisition and the French Revolution. He lived in a world of eroticism, exile and physical mutilation due to the total deafness that struck him at the age of forty-six.
The capriccio is an artistic genre which developed in the sixteenth century in music, architecture and painting. The German composer Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) called it “a kind of improvised fantasy gliding from one theme to another”. J. S. Bach (1685-1750) named Capriccio a composition where the various parts, freely combined, expressed the longing for his far away brother. Particularly appreciated were the 24 Capricci by Niccolò Paganini who inspired Liszt, as well as those composed by Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
In architecture the capriccio is “a folly to the eyes of the viewer”. It is an extravagant building, designed more as an artistic expression than for practical purposes, often in order to appear as a ruin. The building has no aim other than to be an ornamental object, created or commissioned for pure pleasure.
In painting the term capriccio is given to imaginative drawings, far from the predominant themes of the time. Artists like Callot, Piranesi, Tiepolo, Watteau, Guardi and Goya made famous this way of portraying reality. In Venetian painting of the 18th century the capriccio is the art of composing a landscape through the free combination of real and fantastic architectural elements, ruins from antiquity and contemporary aspects.
The Deaf Man’s House is a theatre capriccio on Goya. Themes from his biography and paintings are transformed by the art of the actor into a flow of physical decadence and creative vitality, greed for prestige, squandering of wealth, selfishness, inventiveness, passion and frivolity. It is Goya’s young lover who describes her life with the great artist. Her images, memories and comments conjure up the mystery of Art whose cruel truth walks mockingly over the dead.
Eugenio Barba