Voices
(Twee Stemmen)
tratto da
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cor Herkstróter
regia
Johan Simons
con
Jeroen Willems
traduzione e adattamento
Rob Klinkenberg
Paul Slangen
drammaturgia
Tóm Blokdijk
Paul Slangen
Jan Michael
Robijn Wendelaar
scenografia
Johan Simons
Piet Hein Eek (sedie)
luci e fonica
Ate‑Jan van Kampen, Nico Bink
produzione
Erin Coppens
Petra van Huffel
Theatergroep Hollandia beneficia dei contributi della Provincia del Noord‑Holland e
del Ministero olandese dell'Educazione, Scienza e Cultura
Versione inglese con sottotitoli in italiano
In
Voices Jeroen Willems uses texts by the Italian writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo
Pasolini to portray four contemporary leaders top managers, criminals, prominent
intellectuals, industrialists.
Together they hold today's society in their grasp A fifth leader was added effortlessly
the chairman of the board of Shell International, Cur Herkströter; who
reflects on the moral dilemmas and social responsibility of multinational companies
The text of this 'character' has been derived from speeches and articles by
this Shell director.
In a time when capitalism is celebrating its victory, Pasolini shows the reality
hidden behind the 'right' of the free market ideology Supported by cynicism,
hypocrisy and criminality, the top manager manages to build an empire that gives
him power and riches thanks to a confusion of interests In the end Pasolini
reveals the true nature of this 'system' it destroys the future, it kills the
youth that do not fit in
For Hollandia this world takes shape at the messy table after a feast There,
deep in the night, the five characters speak out Jeroen Willems plays them,
shifting from chair to chair With apparent ease, he transforms from a scientist
to a top manager; from a woman to God and the devil incarnate
'The complacency, filled with depravity and decadent pleasure, with which Jeroen
Willems portrays his characters is almost sensual, Geert Sels wrote in De Standaard
' Yet Willems portrays the row of despots in such a way that even the average
environ mentally-conscious, ethically-responsible, justice-loving Western citizen
of the world with all his fine ideas is turned to pulp and that is what makes
the solo brilliant' (Han Geurts in the Rotterdams Dagblad)
Voices was released in 1997 as a two part play before the interval Betty Schuurman
played C'est tout, the last text by Marguerite Duras, about a woman who is struggling
with her physical and mental decline Voices was selected for the Theaterfestival
1997 and won the 1997 Grand Prix of the Theaterfestival.