| Destination |
| First presented in 2001 by Volcano Theatre Company |
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synopsis: Directed by Kathryn Hunter Translated & Co-directed by Jan Willem Van Den Bosch Design Liz Cooke Music Patrick Fitzgerald Production Manager Rachel Shipp Cast Burn Gorman | Matilda Leyser | Fern Smith Destination is a compelling account of power and oppression explored through the relationship of a domineering mother and her reticent daughter. They have grown up in the shadow of a once thriving but now crumbling foundry. The annual escape from this industrial graveyard to their summer sea-side retreat is thrown into turmoil when a young and brilliant avant-garde playwright is invited to join them. The guilt-ridden mother struggles to find meaning from her past and to embrace the possibility of change and revolution in the future, whatever the outcome or cost. A tense and blackly comic evening where pain and humour, cynicism and optimism, nihilism and faith battle for supremacy in this British premiere of Bernhard's brilliantly driven play. Destination is a new translation by Jan Villem van den Bosch of Am Ziel, one of Thomas Bernhard's most poignant and comic plays. Born in Holland in 1931, Bernhard who lived all of his life in Austria, is one of the most important and original voices of modern European theatre. His dark absurdist plays can be likened to those of Beckett and Pinter. He is, however, virtually unknown in Britain since very few of his eighteen full-length stage plays have been translated into English. He is an exuberant and prolific novelist poet and playwright with a uniquely lyrical and bilious writing style. His darkly comic, anarchic voice speaks through his extraordinary characters and his plays present an eccentric picture of humanity and the modern world, preoccupied as he is with such cultural and political concerns as authority, appearance and reality. |
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