The Play

Originally, Marguerite Duras has written "La Musica" for British Television. Twenty years later she wrote the second act.

This second version was created in Paris in 1985 at the "Théâtre du Rond-Point Renault-Barrault" by MIOU MIOU and Samy FREY, directed by the playright herself. Later, the play has been commissionned by the Hampstead Theater in London in 1992.

The play is about two people who have loved each other and have parted. They are in Evreux for the last act of their separation, the finalising of their divorce. Each has come to see the other for the last time, but "almost involuntarily" (M.D.)

Then a summer night begins in this "Hôtel de France" where they met for the last time. They will stay until early in the morning. They are going to talk. In the first part of the play, their tones alternate between comedy and arguments. Everything seems still possible. The play turns dramatic in the second part: "For twenty years I have been hearing chocked voices, ravaged by the weariness of the sleepless night. May He and She persevere for ever in this youth of first love" (M.D.).

André Nerman

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