Director’s notes/ Description
The novel follows the fortunes of an American family from the era of the Cowboy down to the 1960's through a swirling sequence of dream like confrontations between warring generations.
MOON PALACE is a contemporary novel by one of America's foremost modern novelists, Paul Auster. The novel follows the fortunes of an American family from the era of the Cowboy down to the 1960's through a swirling sequence of dream like confrontations between warring generations.
TNT/ADGE dramatises this extraordinary work as dance drama - not only because one of the main characters is a Chinese American dancer but because dance is the modern American art form par excellence. A jazz score by John Kenny compliments the action - the music was specially recorded by an ensemble of top class international jazz musicians - the score also features traditional Chinese instruments. Choreography is by Eric Tessier Lavigne and the piece is directed by Christian Flint and Paul Stebbings (who adapted the novel with Phil Smith). This is a revival of the highly successful version that toured internationally in
2001/3 - a production that truly integrates drama, text, music and dance in a satisfying and innovative performance - a truly contemporary work and an exploration of the soul of modern America.
"Moon, Myths and Metaphysics
The Wild West and metaphysics, scatological eruption and intellectual effusion, pulp and poetry – in “Moon Palace” all this coexists quite naturally. "
Hessische Allgemeine
"The “American Drama Group Europe” actually succeeds in adapting the extraordinarily complex original, with action spanning three generations and with all its flashbacks and changes of scene in an immensely impressive way. "
Abendzeitung, Munich
"Director Stebbings and his four excellent performers thrilled the audience in the justly sold out Parktheater with an entertaining experiment (in English) which in spite of all theatrical liberties shows Auster’s hand beyond doubt. "
Mannheimer Morgen
"(Auster’s novel is) A good premise for a play, then, and director Paul Stebbings knows how to use it."
Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
" The conversion of a novel into a useable stage version can be a double-edged affair. Paul Stebbings and Paul Smith managed this tightrope walk admirably in their adaptation of Paul Auster’s “Moon Palace” for the TNT Theatre Britain and the American Drama Group Europe……. "
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
"Ausgeträumter amerikanischer Traum - American Drama group zeigt Paul Austers skurile Geschichte "Moon Palace""
Lüdenscheider Nachrichten
"Einen verwirrten Helden mit starker Bühnen präsenz gab Elliot Charles Marsh, der in Thomas Effing und Solomon Barber Großvater und Vater kennenlernte und gleich wieder verlor "
Westfälische Rundschau
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