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- English
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Thérèse Raquin
About this book
'A story of paralysing passion' 1860s Paris. In a small dusty haberdasher's shop near the Seine in the dank, narrow Passage du Pont Neuf, the young and beautiful Thérèse Raquin is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. While her husband is out all day working, Thérèse spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and – every Thursday evening – watching her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes with an eclectic group of ne'er-do-wells. Until the Thursday evening that her husband Camille brings an old friend to the party – the alluring Laurent – and she embarks on an illicit affair that leads Thérèse to abandon all her inhibitions and loyalties as their brutal and overwhelming passion overturns both their lives and has results that nobody could have foreseen... In keeping with the innovative and challenging nature of the original work, this radical new musical adaptation features a company of twelve actor musicians playing the main roles of Thérèse, Laurent, Camille and Madame Raquin, as well as their Thursday night domino playing companions and a watchful and distrustful Chorus.
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ACT ONE
A strong light from above illuminates the cast.
SANG ET NERFS
ALL
Sang et nerfs
Sang et nerfs
Sang et nerfs
In the world there are billions of human animals
Here is one.
Thérèse.
A woman comes out and lies down in the light. The others stand behind, looking down at her.
Like all human animals in the world
Her heart beats 100,000 times a day
Her blood circulates 1,000 times a day
In one drop of her blood there float 5 million red blood cells.
She has more nerve cells in her brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
Sang et nerfs
Sang et nerfs
Sang et nerfs
In the world there are billions of human animals
Here is another.
Laurent.
A man lies down with THÉRÈSE in the light. They find a position with their arms wrapped around each other.
In these two human animals
Blood and nerves hold sway
They are drawn by the inescapable promptings of their flesh
Let us look at these inbuilt temperaments
And the effect of the surroundings in which they live.
Sang et nerfs
Sang et nerfs
Sang et nerfs
Blood and nerves
Blood and nerves
Blood and nerves
Where will it end?
Another woman comes and sits in a chair behind the two bodies.
AT THE END
ALL
An old woman sits
Immobile
Her eyes fixed on the two bodies curled up at her feet
Her two precious children wrapped in each other’s arms
A flask of poison lies
Broken
As if fallen from her hand
Her two precious children are dead
And she
Murders them again and again with the hatred from her eyes.
Blood and nerves
Blood and nerves
Blood and nerves
Where did it begin?
MADAME
That’s easy. I can tell you that.
A SNUGGY LITTLE HOUSE
Oh I had a house, such a snuggy, little house
On the banks of the Seine
On the banks of the Seine
With broad meadows all around
And a garden running down
To the banks of the Seine
To the banks of the Seine
In a village called Vernon
Where the days had come and gone
Just the same
Over hundreds of years
And four hundred francs a month
Bought my snuggy little house
I was very very happy never fear!
On the banks of the Seine
Oh I had a son such a snuggy lovely son
Who was so delicate
He was so delicate
From when he was in the cradle
To this very same day
He is so delicate
Yes he’s so delicate
He had measles, mumps and vomiting
Rubella, pink eye, croup
Whooping cough and tonsillitis
All he’d ever eat was soup
H...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Characters
- Act One
- Act Two