“The Egg”
by Felicien
Marceau
1962
Broadway
Θεατρική παράσταση Νέα Υόρκη
Time
magazine January 1962
Θεατρογραφικά
Dick
Shawn & Janet Ward in “The Egg”
The
Theater
Shell
Game
“The Egg” (by
Félicien Marceau) is a French sex farce with more head than bed in it, though
on Broadway it tries to keep grinning from leer to leer.
The play’s
hero, Emile Magis (Dick Shawn), is poor, wistful and young, and he yearns to
crack the shell of “the egg,” as he calls middle-class society. If he can live
up to the rules of “the system,” Emile reasons, he will stop being an outsider.
The rules to
him are the clichés people are always mouthing, such as, “He got up as fresh as
a daisy.” Emile wakes up worn out and achy. When it comes to girls a man who
knows the system is able to say, “I said, ‘My place?’ and she said, ‘Why not?’ ”
It takes
Emile three years to get a woman up to his place. The education of Emile
continues in episodic vaudeville skits, and the hero gradually realizes that
the system has no logic. When it fails, “you have to lie,” he discovers. All is
chance and absurdity.
For a time,
Emile enjoys a mindlessly sensual affair with a married woman (Janet Ward). But
the lure of the egg is too strong. He marries a bureaucrat’s daughter and
becomes a civil servant.
Μετάφραση στα ελληνικά:
Για ένα διάστημα, ο Emile απολαμβάνει μια ασυνείδητα αισθησιακή σχέση με
μια παντρεμένη γυναίκα (Janet Ward). Αλλά το δέλεαρ του αυγού είναι πολύ
δυνατό. Παντρεύεται την κόρη ενός γραφειοκράτη και γίνεται δημόσιος υπάλληλος.
When his wife is unfaithful,
Emile turns venal and takes money from her lover “for the entertainment.”
Fearful that the pair might kill him, Emile murders his wife with the lover's
revolver.
Μετάφραση στα Ελληνικά:
Όταν η σύζυγός του γίνεται άπιστη, τότε ο Emile γίνεται αργυρώνητος και
παίρνει χρήματα από τον εραστή της «για τη διασκέδαση». Φοβούμενος ότι το
ζευγάρι μπορεί να τον σκοτώσει, ο Emile δολοφονεί τη γυναίκα
του με το περίστροφο του εραστή της.
In a
hilarious scene of courtroom parody, the lover is sentenced to a 20-year jail
term, and Emile yelps gleefully to the audience “That's the system!”
Μετάφραση στα Ελληνικά:
Σε μια ξεκαρδιστική σκηνή παρωδίας στο δικαστήριο, ο εραστής
καταδικάζεται σε ποινή φυλάκισης 20 ετών και ο Εμίλ φωνάζει χαρούμενα στο κοινό
«Αυτό είναι το σύστημα!»
The Egg has
been directed for its racy blue lines rather than its wry black comedy theme.
Dick Shawn is
miscast as Emile. He is funny, versatile and energetic, but he lacks what the
role most needs—lack of confidence. The world is Shawn’s oyster rather than an
uncrackable egg. The shiver of terror that should accompany the transformation
of the timidest soul into the tawdriest heel is thus lost.
In scenes of
inane family cackle, and in the spectacle of a cuckolded husband applauding his
wife flagrante delicto [επ’ αυτοφώρω]
(“Congratulations, Heloise. You're getting better every time’’), Playwright
Marceau approaches the existential nausea («υπαρξιακή ναυτία»)
toward life that animates the “theater of the absurd” (θέατρο του παραλόγου). Sartre and Camus have
obviously influenced Marceau, but the guiding philosophy behind Broadway's Egg
seems to be Minsky’s.
Time
magazine, January 19, 1962, column: The Theater, p. 68.
από τον ιστότοπο “Theatricalia”
υπερσύνδεση:
production of the play "The Egg"
by Felicien Marceau
8th – 13th January 1962,
at Cort Theatre,
(now: James Earl Jones Theatre, New York).
Οι συντελεστές:
σκηνοθεσία: Lamont Johnson
μετάφραση: Robert Schlitt
σκηνικά: Robert Kelly
κοστούμια: Ray Aghayan
φωτισμός: Robert Brannigan
διανομή (cast):
/ - Barbedart: Lou
Gilbert
/ - Card Player: Arnold
Soboloff
/ - Charlotte: Marcia
Levant
/ - Concierge: Lola Lynch
/ - Counsel for the
Defense: Michael Vale
/ - Counsel for the
Prosecution: Arnold Soboloff
/ - Court Clerk: Don
Dwyer
/ - Doctor: Frederick
Rolf
/ - Dufiquet: Michael
Vale
/ - Dugommier: Frederick
Rolf
/ - Emile Magis: Dick
Shawn
/ - Eugene: Michael
Constantine
/ - Gendarme: George
Poulas
/ - Gendarme: Harold
Spelvin
/ - Georgette: Marcia
Levant
/ - Girl in Park: Vilma
Auld
/ - Gustave: Michael
Constantine
/ - Heloise: Paddy
Edwards
/ - Jacques: Arnold
Soboloff
/ - Joseph: Arnold
Soboloff
/ - Judge: Lou Gilbert
/ - Justine: Sudie Bond
/ - Lucy: Lola Lynch
/ - Mlle Duvant: Mabel
Albertson
/ - Mr. Berthoullet: Michael
Vale
/ - Mrs. Berthoullet:
Mabel Albertson
/ - Photographer: James
Beard
/ - Raffard: Frederick
Rolf
/ - Rose: Janet Ward
/ - The Mother: Paddy
Edwards
/ - Uncle: Lou Gilbert
/ - Waiter: James Beard
/ - Woman in Café: Janet
Ward
/ - Woman on Subway:
Mabel Albertson
/ - Young Girl: Marcia
Levant
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1962 Broadway
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1962
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