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Madame Aurelia floats like an elegant reminder from another time, and having emerged from her spectacular lair, she arrives at the Exchange Cafe, where she proffers an unexpected invitation. Following the success of UTB’s A Lovely Day (an adaptation of Michel de Ghelderode’s Pantegleize) we now make a reverent curtsy to Jean Giraudoux's play The Madwoman of Chaillot for a re-telling in these bully-times of oil gluttony, bank bail-outs and ponzi schemes. Are we all Mad enough yet? And if so, might The Meek actually inherit this crazy granite planet? Will we succeed in nursing the poor bird back to health?
Madame Aurelia tells the tale of a day in A Breathtaking City Like Your Own as Persons of Business (presidents, barons, prospectors, bankers) plan to drill-up the place because they have heard reports that there are great reserves of riches below. Aurelia and her whimsical coterie get-wind-of-this and they create an intoxicating plan to stop the crime, sending the naughty ones into the lower depths. It's an epic, with a bittersweet wink of hope.
Developing the piece with a splendid ensemble of actors, Upon These Boards will share a lightly-staged "parlor version" of this new adaptation and we invite you (friends, colleagues and artisans) to be with us, to sip in the candlelight, to hear the play with the ears that reside in your hearts. The play-reading may even relocate to an event site, such as your social-hall or worship-place or to a theatre - to be shared as a Peace Benefit (see UTB’s successful event Lysistrata Project). Stay tuned for dates and locations in 2010.
The Ensemble:
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