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In the 1950s French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet innovated a manner of storytelling focused purely on a drama's inanimate aspects and on its incidental components. His stories spell out the habits and patterns of people: what they hold, where they sit and how they touch. Robbe-Grillet's breakthrough novel, Jealousy (1957), repeatedly visits an assortment of compact scenes-each within the same day-and-a-half window-on adjacent plantations in an undisclosed location. From this place, whose surface we explore in aurally-discernible routes and patterns, comes a theatrical puzzle. The sum of these descriptions leads the story's narrator, a man brought to a standstill by jealousy, to suspect an infidelity between his wife and their neighbour. What's missing is the character whose very name contains an ellipse-three dots. We know her only as A...

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Music: Edward Jessen

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Archive listings for Plantation A... (2024)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

T01320799819

Based on Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1957 novel JealousyPresented byPhaedra Ensemble. Design Jamie Hamilton. Producer Emily Granozio. Design Victoria Jessen-Pike. Lighting Zeynep Kepekli. Other Holly Thomas (AD and Access Consultant). Performer Anna Pych.
11 Sep 24 to 14 Sep 24Arcola, Inner London :: V1422226940
listing details L623263215

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