About This Show
Paradis, written by playwright Pascal Rambert, is presented as part of Act French: A Season of New Theater From France, a citywide festival celebrating French contemporary theater through a diverse range of performances, lectures and events at venues across New York City through December. This production will be performed in English.
Three flashes of lightning and the actors emerge from the audience, take the stage (a sort of black-curtained Pandora’s box), summarily undress, and enter into series of inter-dependent movements Rambert calls “tripods” in three-quarter time. Along the edge of a vast, untouchable space, on a carpet beneath a descending galaxy of lights, words, phrases, questions are considered and absorbed, passed from one actor to the next, accumulating meaning, defying narrative. What is theater? Writing? Love? Paradise? “The beauty of writing lies in the unfolding of life,” Rambert says. “Each word is a world in itself.