Pièce de théatre
| We're fortunate in that France
Télévision regularly screens plays, a live
performance about once a month, but also recorded works. Over Christmas
2009 we had Mon père avait raison, of Sacha
Guitry. The play is not a chef-d'oeuvre, and Guitry is not the greatest of
French playwrights. He is like the English playwright J B Priestley, a
fabricator of "well-made plays". I've chosen it for that reason, but also because the sound quality is typical of a televised stage production. The sound a little blurred, although the actors speak very clearly. I'm going to put the first act up here as ten-minute extracts (about double the size of the usual downloads), along with the text. My advice is not to listen to it while you read the text. That does no good. Watch it without the text, then read the text, then watch again.
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06-01-2010 Act I Extract 1 |
Here's our second extract. The actors are Claude Brasseur and
his son, Alexandre
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14-01-2010 Act I Extract 2 |
The tension builds - towards the inevitable
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30-01-2010 Act I Extract 3 |
The end of the act. The telephone call from a station platform....
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10-02-2010 Act I Extract 4 |