Ivo van Hove deploys all shades of black

Too much tragedy kill tragedy? At the (almost) half-time of the Avignon Festival, on the evening of the 14th of July, at the end of De Dingen die Voorbijgaan ("the things that pbad"), the new creation , premiered in French, by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove. The director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, one of the undisputed masters of the current European theater, is now a regular in Avignon, where, since 2008, his shows have marked the spirits, whether Roman tragedies by Shakespeare, The Fountainhead after Ayn Rand, or the famous Damned, inspired by Visconti, presented in the Courtyard of the Palace of the Popes , in 2016, with the troupe of the Comédie-Française

In a 2018 edition that seems to decline all shades of black, Ivo van Hove returns with an almost unknown author in France, the Dutch poet and novelist Louis Couperus (1863 -1923), which he presents as an equivalent of Proust or Thomas Mann. From Dingen die Voorbijgaan, signed by Couperus in 1906, was all about tragedy, under its naturalistic and psychological exterior that belonged to the literature of the late nineteenth ^e century. [19659006ThisisthestoryofafamilydominatedbyanimpressivematriarchnamedOttilieInherthereliesthefamilysecretthateveryoneknowsbutwhodoesnotspeakwhohasbeenyouforsixtyyearsandwhognawsanddestroysonegenerationafteranotherSomethinghappenedmorethansixtyyearsagowhenOttilieherhusbandandherloverlivedintheEastIndiesAnirreparableactwhichasapoisoncontinuestoslowlyproduceitseffectsfromonegenerationtoanotherinthisnovelofwhichoneofthemostinterestingaspects-andverycurrent-isthecohabitationbetweentwogenerationsalreadyoldoneapproaching90theother70

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From Dingen die Voorbijgaan, …