The Satin Slipper
The Satin Slipper (Le Soulier de satin) is a long play by the French dramatist and poet Paul Claudel, written in 1929. It was first performed on stage in 1943 (abridged), in a production by Claudel and Jean-Louis Barrault.[1] Its full running time is roughly eleven hours.
Plot summary
[edit]The scene is set during the Renaissance at the time of the conquistadors. The play is a love story dominated by the ideas of sin and redemption and the various characters, some divine and some comic, frequently engage in a dialogue as though between Heaven and Earth.
Productions
[edit]Nowadays it is rarely staged, because of its extreme length and its challenging production requirements. Full-length productions were staged in Paris, and the Avignon Festival in 1987,[2] and by Olivier Py at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris in 2009.
It was made into a seven-hour film in 1985 by the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
In May 2021 an opera version by Marc-André Dalbavie received its premiere at the Paris Opera, with a libretto by Raphaèle Fleury.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Edition critique : Le Soulier de satin by Paul Claudel, Antoinette Weber-Caflisch, Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, n° 334, Les Belles Lettres, 1987.
External links
[edit]- [1] (in French)
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