Elizabeth Costello. Seven Lectures and Five Moral Tales
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Representation
With Elizabeth Costello, Krzysztof Warlikowski, whose last appearance at the Grand Théâtre, with Phèdre(s) – Isabelle Huppert played the timeless heroine – dates back to 2016, deepens his exploration of the enigmatic character Elizabeth Costello, to whom he has been returning for about fifteen years.
An elderly Australian novelist consumed by doubt about the power of literature in the face of the world's suffering, Elizabeth Costello, a fictional heroine invented by Nobel laureate John Maxwell Coetzee and who appears in several of his novels, becomes over the years an alter ego of her inventor, a kind of ghostly spokesperson.
Warlikowski is fascinated by this female character, free, provocative, disconcerting, so much so that he offers her the lead role in this show which was created in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des Papes in Avignon in the summer of 2024. As usual, Warlikowski's work – accompanied by composer Paweł Mykietyn, video artist Kamil Polak and his long-time scenographer Małgorzata Szczęśniak – is kaleidoscopic, venturing into the realm of images, visions, nightmares and fantasies, relentlessly exploring the impossibility of living without compromise.
Where does it take place?
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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