{"id":265776,"date":"2008-11-04T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/11\/04\/sebald-on-stage\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:39","slug":"sebald-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/11\/04\/sebald-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebald on Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Conversational Reading<\/a> (and Vertigo<\/a> before that) for bringing “i-witness” to our attention. From Wales Online<\/a><\/p>\n

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Like most of us, Paul Davies and Fern Smith enjoy immersing themselves in a good book. [Ed. Note: That use of “like most of us” signals that we’re not reading a U.S. paper.]<\/em> But when they stumbled upon a copy of The Rings Of Saturn<\/em> by W G Sebald, the seed was sown for a new stage production.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now 10 years after the book\u2019s original publication, and seven years after the German author\u2019s untimely death, Volcano Theatre Company are presenting the UK premiere of i-witness, which was inspired by his words. It\u2019s the first time Sebald\u2019s work has ever been taken to the stage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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But it isn\u2019t a straightforward adaptation of The Rings Of Saturn,<\/em> which is an account of the narrator\u2019s walking tour of south eastern England. Instead it takes a wider look at literature in general.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can see the 5 minute clip below, but here’s how it’s described:<\/p>\n

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During the performance, the cast of four \u2013 Smith, Davies, Catherine Bennett and Philip Ralph, who wrote the award-winning Sherman Cymru production Deep Cut \u2013 all give their own thoughts on Sebald\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Bennett is fanatical about the things no-one notices. Davies plays music to keep the silence at bay. Ralph has not been sleeping well since he read it. Smith is hypnotized by the rhythm of endless walking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even aside from the Sebald connection, the Volcano Theatre Company sounds pretty cool—their last production was called “A Few Little Drops,” and “was staged in a purpose-built inflatable arena, complete with its own self-contained water world.”<\/p>\n

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