I caught up with the Scottish/French Playwright, Gloria McAleer Carreño to find out about her new play “Dreamlife”. Gloria’s last play, Filles de Kronos (Daughters of Kronos) was uniquely performed in French (with English subtitles presented on stage) at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Daily Motion videoed an interview with Gloria in Tarbes about Dreamlife, starring Elsa Beigbeder, Roland Abadie, Marc Lallement, Valérie Lons. Dreamlife is Directed by Natalia Beigbeder and assisted by Françoise Delile-Manière. As it’s in French, Gloria has kindly provided us with an English translation:
“As I say in the interview, the idea for “Dreamlife” is really a love story. Each character is in love with someone or something. It’s fascinating to watch how each character responds and implements his or her own agenda. I think the humour is very British but the approach is French – not to mention the stage-directing which is Spanish! Natalia has a zany, Almodovar-like impertinence which I just love.
An English-speaking author, writing in French and directed by a Spaniard. Isn’t the world wonderful!
Mmm, yes, of course it would be very interesting to have the play performed in the UK after our première in France. Great idea, Liz! It would be quite fascinating to see the different approach in English with a British or American company.
‘Clash of Wills’ reading, starring – Guy Wilsdorf , Stephanie Campion, Richard Pye, Carey Downer, Richard Hadley, Julie Kalya and James Gerard.
Clash of Wills emerged from the sudden realisation (laughs) that despite our attempts to find our own unique identity there are very often invisible strings being pulled – even from beyond the grave! So, I came up with the idea of a will whose terms include the legator’s ashes being split into three ‘portions’ and standing in three different homes “in a prominent position” for a period of twelve months…. Honestly, three urns on stage is really spooky and gives rise to lots of nervous laughter. Yes, black comedy probably is a good description….
The actors are all professionals, yes, based in Paris, funnily enough, I suppose but working all over the place. Stephanie, for example, is on in London at ‘The Space’, (Isle of Dogs in London) in House Calls – 16-19th October and James was just about to zip off to the US for filming. (Look for him in “Les femmes de l’ombre“) I was extremely luck to work with actors of this calibre!
We’d love to go straight into production after the reading but we are still looking for financial backing!”
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Check out Gloria’s Blog for more information.
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