{"id":58529,"date":"2024-06-12T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=58529"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:40:16","slug":"appearance-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/appearance-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearance and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Colmar, France. <\/em><strong>From July 10 to 14, the Goetheanum will host the Theater Festival. The French Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de L&#8217;Homme Inconnu will be performing the Shakespeare play, &#8220;La Nuit des Rois&#8221; (\u201cTwelfth Night\u201d) there. An interview with the director, Marc-Alexandre Cousquer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the performance about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comedy is a mixture of folly and existential variations on the theme of appearance and reality. <em>Cucullus non facit monachum<\/em>\u2014the cowl does not make the monk! Does my sensual form\u2014my image\u2014reflect the truth of my being, or is it just a facade, an expression of my conceit and arrogance? In an opposite and broader sense, is there wisdom behind the veil of appearances? The events in the play seem tragic and improbable, like an illusion\u2014yet they carry the weaving of fate within them. Thus, the illusion seems to tell the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What themes and questions are you researching?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An essential aspect of our work fits wonderfully with the piece\u2019s theme: we want to give a big, theatrical hint! How can we unfold an idea and a sensually perceptible image in space in such a way that the audience can experience it with their whole being? How can we portray the elemental life, the breath of the soul-spiritual?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What influence does Rudolf Steiner&#8217;s <em>Drama Course<\/em> have on your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Drama Course<\/em> is the basis of my entire theater work. The path it proposes, starting not from a concept or an idea but from the human limbs, from the human being who lives in gestures, forms the ground from which the whole expression develops. Imagination also lives in this realm. The expression that then unfolds reveals the inner being of the human being, their relationship to the world, and all that lives in and between the poet&#8217;s words. It opens up a poetic space where the inspired limb-human is transformed into an image-human. I am trying to reach this imaginative level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/festtage.goetheanum.ch\/la-nuit-des-rois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">La Nuit des Rois<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Charles Cross<br><strong>Image <\/strong>Scenes from the play <em>La Nuit des Rois<\/em>, source: Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de L\u2019Homme Inconnu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colmar, France. From July 10 to 14, the Goetheanum will host the Theater Festival. The French Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de L&#8217;Homme Inconnu will be performing the Shakespeare play, &#8220;La Nuit des Rois&#8221; (\u201cTwelfth Night\u201d) there. An interview with the director, Marc-Alexandre Cousquer. What is the performance about? This comedy is a mixture of folly and existential variations on the theme of appearance and reality. Cucullus non facit monachum\u2014the cowl does not make the monk! Does my sensual form\u2014my image\u2014reflect the truth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20571,"featured_media":58276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8820,8818],"tags":[11520,11519,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-58529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-theatre","tag-english-issue-24-2024","tag-ausgabe-22-2024-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}