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BY LINDSAY VICKERYfrom the novel Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet*.THE NOVELDescribed as a haunting, disorienting and brilliantly constructed novel, it is the story of a young man who joins a clandestine organisation under the command of an alluring, androgynous American girl Jean (Djinn). Having agreed to wear dark glasses and carry a cane like a blind man, he comes to realise, through bizarre encounters, recurring visual images and fractured time sequences that he is, in a sense, helplessly blind.
THE OPERARendez-vous dissolves the barriers of 'traditional opera', deploying a range of vocal styles from lyric operatic tunefulness to Tom Wait-sy latenight grumblings. The music evokes a familiar soundtrack ambience. Through the use of sampling keyboards, the traditional function of soundtrack sound effects is subverted and incorporated into the structure of the work: a dripping tap becomes a musical motive; characters exist 'live' or be pre-recorded on film. Robbe-Grillet's playful allusions to pop-culture - Film Noir, the occult and Sci-Fi genres - abound in Rendez-vous. Audiences will delight in the filmic qualities of the production, in which fully-projected sets create an unstable reality in keeping with the themes of the novel.
THE COMPOSERLindsay Vickery's music with its kaleidoscopic blend of influences, has been performed in Norway, Germany, Holland, England, the USA and across Australia. Known principally for his work over the last ten years with new music group Magnetic Pig, he has been a driving force in the devlopment of Australian new music.THE DIRECTORTalya Masel's work as actor, director, writer and teacher of theatre, music theatre and opera has taken her to Australia, Russia, Great Britain and Europe. Her unique ability to understand and interpret various theatre forms whilst maintaining the genesis of the ensemble (via Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko) has created a career path which has seen her work with across the spectrum from students to the world's top professionals.
*© 1981 by Les Editions de Minuit; English translation © 1982 by Yvone Lenard and Walter Wells Rendez-vous has been made possible by A Seeding Grant from the Research Committee of WAAPA@ECU; has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and The State of Western Australia through ArtsWA in association with the Lotteries Commission. Rendez-vous is sponsored by Malaysian Airlines, and Healthway to promote The Family Planning Associations Play It Safe message.
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Wed 21-Sun 25 Nov 2001
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