King
Lear & Prospero _ Maurice Béjart

- King
Lear - Prospero Two fathers and their love for a woman, who is their own
daughter, be her name Cordelia or Miranda.
The tragedy of possession. Possession of a being, possession of a Kingdom...
one unique fight!
One of the two, Lear, pretends to renounce the Kingdom but cannot really
let go of power: conflict, drama, and mindlessness...
The other, Prospero, deposited by his brother, renounces his last power,
that of magic, and forgives whilst Lear curses his daughters, themselves
neither less nor more guilty than the Duke of Milan, who actually sent Prospero
to exile.
Two family dramas. Only among families does one know how to truly hate (or
love, and such up to incest). Those two Princes, Lear - Prospero, are the
very same character in this jolly bloody tragic-comical melodrama. A melodrama
which, amidst the Atrides and Mishima's heroes, Molière's fathers
and Wagner's Wotan, shows us the ridicule of power in all its strength and
virility, saved at last by love and abnegation.
Maurice Béjart
- Choreographic
adaptation by Maurice Béjart, based on Shakespeare's plays : "King
Lear" and "The Tempest".
- Music
by Henry Purcell and original compositions (live music) by Thierry
Hochstätter.