Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir [Aurores]
Director: Ariane Mnouchkine
Writer: Théâtre du Soleil, Hélène Cixous
Based on: Jules Verne‘s The Survivors of the “Jonathan”
Cast: Théâtre du Soleil (Maixence Bauduin, Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini, Sébastien Bonneau, Aline Borsari, Sébastien Brottet-Michel, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Olivia Corsini, Eve Doe-Bruce, Ana Amelia Dosse, Maurice Durozier, Paula Giusti, Astrid Grant, Sylvain Jailloux, Dominique Jambert, Judit Jancso, Seear Kohi, Marjolaine Larranaga y Ausin, Jean-Jacques Lemêtre, Vincent Mangado, Jean-Sébastien Merle, Alice Milléquant, Ariane Mnouchkine, Serge Nicolaï, Seietsu Onochi, Vijayan Panikkaveettil, Pauline Poignand, Samir Abdul Jabbar Saed, Armand Saribekyan, Andreas Simma, Frédérique Voruz, Shaghayegh Beheshti)
Part of: Wiener Festwochen
Plot:
In 1914, a group of silent filmmakers are trying to put together a movie, shooting in the attic of café owner Félix Courage. Constantly struggling to have enough actors and to cobble the scenes together before time or money runs out, things are made even more difficult by the impending outbreak of World War One.
This play could have been fantastic, but it was too long and repetitive and it just got so incredibly boring that I really, really had to leave after two hours (meaning halfway through).