![]() ![]() This is probably the most extentsive of the Peter Handke sites on the web. We hope you find these resources of interest. Below are some links to websites which relate to the history of the play, the biography of the playwright, and sites that contextualize and, we hope, shed light on the directorial approach to the dramatic material. Over the course of the season, our assistant directors and student dramaturgs will be compiling dramaturgical resources relating to each production as it develops. In “I Delayed People’s Flights In Narrow Hallways”, Mayke Nas has adapted the idea of Handke's text into a musictheatre-piece for four performers rhythmically writing new confessions on four blackboards as if they were lines of punishment.ĭirection: Jellie Dekker.Dramaturgical Resources 2006 The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other Almost half a century later the text has lost nothing of it's thought-provoking meaning and inspiration. In a sheer endless enumeration of wrongdoings the human morality is cool-headedly dissected and exposed. In the famous stageplay “Self-Accusation” (1966) by Peter Handke, a first-person narrator puts on the hair shirt. (Frits van der Waa in de Volkskrant, 18 juni 2009) Slagwerk Den Haag rightly decided that this grand composition by Mayke Nas and Wouter Snoei could only be presented well on a dvd.ĭirector Jellie Dekker turned it into a fascinating film, in which she managed to capture the essence of the piece - the texts, the electronic sounds triggered by the sound of the chalk - perfectly." But chalking on a blackboard rythmically, that is quite something else. Review of the DVD: "Percussion players can turn anything into an instrument. (Anthony Fiumara in Trouw, 16 december 2005) Visually and auditively, the duo made an incredibly exciting and original work, from an equally strong idea. The wiping of the self-accusations (after the play by Peter Handke), that were chalked on the boards like lines of punishment, produced columns of dust-clouds. Four percussionists moved their chairs back and forth audibly and rhythmically and wrote on four blackboards in the same manner the boards in their turn were enhanced, transformed and enlarged by the electronics of Wouter Snoei. Review of a live-performance: "The dusty-fresh 'I Delayed People's Flights' by duo Mayke Nas and Wouter Snoei had everything to do with wiping. ![]() Instrumentation: 4 players, 4 chairs & 4 amplified blackboards with live-electronicsįirst performance: 14 december 2005 in Felix Meritis in Amsterdam by Percussion Group The Hague and Wouter SnoeiĬommissioned by: Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst In collaboration with: Wouter Snoei (live-electronics) Based on "Self-accusation" by Peter Handke ![]()
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