tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75659699002499441122024-02-06T20:08:58.157-08:00Fun with FeydeauThis site is a compendium of information for Feydeau fans, actors, students, playwrights and the San Diego State production team for PARADISE HOTEL. Please email comments and suggestions to the production dramaturg at lojosimon@gmail.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-4623093265819191222010-11-16T09:29:00.000-08:002010-11-16T09:29:49.045-08:00Paradise Hotel Opens This Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The set is built, costumes are sewn, actors are in character, lights are set... And the show is opening this Friday! So take a break from your routine, and check into the Paradise Hotel, a little love nest away from home, where love can blossom and no questions asked. Reserve your room today!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqRVjZfwWSDf5_E4kZDbijlqWazM03QWZH5Vymohh9JLj5Sc7Leofwyyg7skfWfiFfNbxu0c6YPRvqjp8YgrAuAhaZc5T-seGeRzrwEIGlYN__lGZAtZiACVAF1nAwCPPNMJ3_wHfjPXy/s1600/IMG_0493.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqRVjZfwWSDf5_E4kZDbijlqWazM03QWZH5Vymohh9JLj5Sc7Leofwyyg7skfWfiFfNbxu0c6YPRvqjp8YgrAuAhaZc5T-seGeRzrwEIGlYN__lGZAtZiACVAF1nAwCPPNMJ3_wHfjPXy/s320/IMG_0493.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a behind-the-scenes look at rehearsal. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjqG9BsbHGnXsi0aAJQrQKZtQt861OGeZngw5env0bQ4xXubD8-jRywtkztwdV8RwZFBjwdsZi8lFBIu95Oqbz8kCao0Nc1BvlCtgak2aEgEY6_jWRGexyWJ71FF4V0Q9GHnWMmaxgm3J/s1600/PB100181.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjqG9BsbHGnXsi0aAJQrQKZtQt861OGeZngw5env0bQ4xXubD8-jRywtkztwdV8RwZFBjwdsZi8lFBIu95Oqbz8kCao0Nc1BvlCtgak2aEgEY6_jWRGexyWJ71FF4V0Q9GHnWMmaxgm3J/s320/PB100181.JPG" width="238" /></a></div> Margarite models her period underwear.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNunnrs7UNG_RK1YP3EER0t26hedC3csrOgxQBgJlPKQpqmdkQ3MieANfVIr2klgD3figXwudMGMMzPYitJd6-4UuhyR8myB6wsjrymNvTsTHOJDa3t70zP1ewmZzTBKEavxLCa1j0v2F/s1600/PB100182.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNunnrs7UNG_RK1YP3EER0t26hedC3csrOgxQBgJlPKQpqmdkQ3MieANfVIr2klgD3figXwudMGMMzPYitJd6-4UuhyR8myB6wsjrymNvTsTHOJDa3t70zP1ewmZzTBKEavxLCa1j0v2F/s320/PB100182.JPG" width="240" /></a></div> Benoit looks happy to be home in his office. But is he really?<br />
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<div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR6NdWdSyqKcrk_9-7L7EXh2BPGx58tWuxHjOXJ1iDEF9MbYW1kcjoUmCOUezdqKtHdaNNOL6OSLc2ONBcfMmwvih2cPahgDarPKBIrE5V-NM3RDc2FaV4MU-vZL2mDCiDg6ZbgHMK4UQL/s1600/PB100183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR6NdWdSyqKcrk_9-7L7EXh2BPGx58tWuxHjOXJ1iDEF9MbYW1kcjoUmCOUezdqKtHdaNNOL6OSLc2ONBcfMmwvih2cPahgDarPKBIrE5V-NM3RDc2FaV4MU-vZL2mDCiDg6ZbgHMK4UQL/s320/PB100183.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJ1QJC9feXVolIktOkSJmssH0rs1NUAzqyRSBOQ_0pymuSfVKOQoBjPR766wOnOhqea87wN47efGiHxdVeSlDnJiEyK8K6Thz7_Jfvi9_JsrfSymDKZe1ibFuZ-m4c76skY5RUHWwYpH0/s1600/PB100187.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJ1QJC9feXVolIktOkSJmssH0rs1NUAzqyRSBOQ_0pymuSfVKOQoBjPR766wOnOhqea87wN47efGiHxdVeSlDnJiEyK8K6Thz7_Jfvi9_JsrfSymDKZe1ibFuZ-m4c76skY5RUHWwYpH0/s320/PB100187.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-15896489182748470362010-11-08T21:39:00.000-08:002010-11-11T09:28:14.067-08:00Scene Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Two weeks before the show:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3xUfSxtfeoLTkErrrsgWPJwvcAt00sl1UQi1H_ege7b-TyWxu4kwuS1PD2ANw15K8WnWFNmQ5O8AFuZxsMjcJechhv7PbNkubwf7jL8EaRhO0_yQrc-xsoIoZu17-8aKuobG_JYmz9NZ/s1600/IMG_0475.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3xUfSxtfeoLTkErrrsgWPJwvcAt00sl1UQi1H_ege7b-TyWxu4kwuS1PD2ANw15K8WnWFNmQ5O8AFuZxsMjcJechhv7PbNkubwf7jL8EaRhO0_yQrc-xsoIoZu17-8aKuobG_JYmz9NZ/s320/IMG_0475.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Megan Stogner, Thomas Hodges and Jon Wat rehearse their scenes before the first run-thru.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5aXV_J0V45kkd5Qw7f1GxQyQs-4DXv-M1R8sPYrM4WenzfageCTyFQfH5ohBVU5WL9-KVYDNOY4IpY7Fs8wdh0e7rXnz-YGNTHJlW_v_Gyq_GjU-R-H6c5ohn-V_Cy2jIEIkIVjRO-CTb/s1600/IMG_0478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5aXV_J0V45kkd5Qw7f1GxQyQs-4DXv-M1R8sPYrM4WenzfageCTyFQfH5ohBVU5WL9-KVYDNOY4IpY7Fs8wdh0e7rXnz-YGNTHJlW_v_Gyq_GjU-R-H6c5ohn-V_Cy2jIEIkIVjRO-CTb/s320/IMG_0478.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5aXV_J0V45kkd5Qw7f1GxQyQs-4DXv-M1R8sPYrM4WenzfageCTyFQfH5ohBVU5WL9-KVYDNOY4IpY7Fs8wdh0e7rXnz-YGNTHJlW_v_Gyq_GjU-R-H6c5ohn-V_Cy2jIEIkIVjRO-CTb/s1600/IMG_0478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Notice that the floor is finished to look like a hotel lobby, and the bed is being built in one of the hotel rooms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGE4cRSL6CSuSa3AbuFt3AkvYh6Hk_xmax3dUxZU6BwI1a9Ey5cGQv61d5X0OngaKlRmlGGjTuTc0mLXTWbkI5EHv4-CB_nnm-9qqBp_-qd9clVymJ3YJE_Nnk8MnLZ2ZHaWbcCiWmgjA/s1600/IMG_0473.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGE4cRSL6CSuSa3AbuFt3AkvYh6Hk_xmax3dUxZU6BwI1a9Ey5cGQv61d5X0OngaKlRmlGGjTuTc0mLXTWbkI5EHv4-CB_nnm-9qqBp_-qd9clVymJ3YJE_Nnk8MnLZ2ZHaWbcCiWmgjA/s320/IMG_0473.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Later this week, all the set pieces will be put in place, props will magically appear and tech will begin.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-23037201713435804612010-11-04T20:24:00.000-07:002010-11-11T09:28:52.565-08:00Rehearsal Photos: Three Weeks Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMxElyEAYT6dR7nCe3HypTy6A3bRzjgkgXnHNrqusr05gTT6IwNzAuS9lGP8Un8Z9tkU2-nNYsg_3SolPjhpY_NRVAz4vhBjQlrorgMzpHXbs8wrXDFsa4qTYmeJ_ebrdXfWgDnHgsIm3/s1600/IMG_0464.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMxElyEAYT6dR7nCe3HypTy6A3bRzjgkgXnHNrqusr05gTT6IwNzAuS9lGP8Un8Z9tkU2-nNYsg_3SolPjhpY_NRVAz4vhBjQlrorgMzpHXbs8wrXDFsa4qTYmeJ_ebrdXfWgDnHgsIm3/s320/IMG_0464.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The crew clears the stage so rehearsal can begin. The floor is covered in black paper and tape because it is being painted by the set crew. Many of the large set pieces have been built and are leaning against the wall.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVK1aH1MNacTpFrW-zaUTEyB3w1kZhlmL_Bm9r4CJxfq5TCO7xGXL_ostIO5hkYJuhP4RRUTLt9e2wxQi9T5G9p2-PJZ7T8T-bCMeVraExPwoQmFT_ad8FndQHeTkRV4aSDqwVnOxcapZ/s1600/IMG_0467.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVK1aH1MNacTpFrW-zaUTEyB3w1kZhlmL_Bm9r4CJxfq5TCO7xGXL_ostIO5hkYJuhP4RRUTLt9e2wxQi9T5G9p2-PJZ7T8T-bCMeVraExPwoQmFT_ad8FndQHeTkRV4aSDqwVnOxcapZ/s320/IMG_0467.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Director Peter Larlham talks the the cast before rehearsal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vjy49CK1-i8ZGGiQBWzqmzJOgfBsaT57HDoxiwGSU8l7YJCQD964E46F84tD1mqQ4p0w81KW8sra7OpFfx0Mp-evfsJ8Qwi3oYnlsW05NIwt8TAj1XFAiCqfrz0H7kw9rQBXHBnnkMtk/s1600/IMG_0468.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vjy49CK1-i8ZGGiQBWzqmzJOgfBsaT57HDoxiwGSU8l7YJCQD964E46F84tD1mqQ4p0w81KW8sra7OpFfx0Mp-evfsJ8Qwi3oYnlsW05NIwt8TAj1XFAiCqfrz0H7kw9rQBXHBnnkMtk/s320/IMG_0468.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ladies rehearse in corsets and skirts, and men wear hard-soled shoes, to get a feel for their costumes. Notice the "wallpapered" wall of the hotel room on the house right side of the photo -- evidence that the crew has been hard at work building the set.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-89785171640338544302010-10-27T16:20:00.000-07:002010-10-27T16:24:33.105-07:00Toulouse Lautrec in Balboa ParkThe dance hall posters and fin-du-siecle artwork of Parisian painter Toulouse Lautrec is currently on display at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park. Although T-L died in 1901 (at age 36, another victim of syphilis), his work evokes all the gaiety of La Belle Epoque -- the time period in which Paradise Hotel takes place -- and is worth seeing to gain insight into the world in which the Pinglets and Paillardins (and especially Antoinette) lived. Click on the link above for museum information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-45869586980770559832010-10-24T12:12:00.000-07:002010-10-24T12:12:48.773-07:00Phlegm, not PuceActors: Sonia has opted to go with a light green color for Madame Paillardin's infamous "puce" dress. Since puce is a reddish-brown color (the color of a flea; puce means "flea" in French), the lines referring to the puce dress are changed to the "phlegm" dress. Please make a note in your scripts.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-13885580401960408522010-10-20T20:54:00.000-07:002010-10-20T20:54:45.429-07:00Use Proper Movement to Appear More AuthenticCheck out this video for actors on movement and dance during the Edwardian period. It's British, rather than French, but it should be helpful in suggesting mannerisms and movement style for La Belle Epoque.<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWai73Zl2js">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWai73Zl2js</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-71486484964684031952010-10-08T16:43:00.000-07:002010-10-11T08:07:46.109-07:00Help with Speaking FrenchCast:<br />
If your character speaks French, please practice your accent. Click on the headline above or the link below for audio of commonly used French words. This particular link goes to the "M" page, for "monsieur" and "madame".<br />
<a href="http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiodico-m.htm">http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiodico-m.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-11090014871719217152010-10-05T22:45:00.000-07:002010-10-06T13:02:52.027-07:00The Girls' "Night Light"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">An oil lamp circa 1893, like the "night lights" that Mathieu's daughters might use to create the ghost effect.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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Like many of Feydeau’s other plays, <i>Hotel</i> is characterized by rapid movement of characters on and off stage – what scholar Leonard Pronko calls an essential condition of theatre that Feydeau learned from his predecessor Eugene Labiche. “He compared [his characters] to pieces on a chessboard, and his plays are constructed with the rigor of a well-played game,” Pronko wrote.<br />
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In moving his characters from one location to another, <i>Hotel </i>shifts from a bourgeois home to a disreputable hotel and back to the home again. This shift is typical of Feydeau farces and helped to establish the term “bedroom farce.”<br />
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Feydeau chose to write about love and sex (<i>l’amour</i>), Pronko surmised, because it offers an apparent escape from boredom (<i>ennui)</i>, which Feydeau once said was at the root of all man’s problems. But his characters find that the pursuit of pleasure is hollow, and in the end, they are no better off than they were when their story began. As Pronko pointed out, sadly, “Lying beneath that brilliant polished mechanical surface is all the horror of contemporary life.”<br />
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Feydeau himself was a victim of the horror that lay beneath the reverie of La Belle Epoque. He contracted syphilis and died in 1921 at the young age of 58. <br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Leonard Pronko, <i>Eugene Labiche and Georges Feydeau</i>, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Grove Press, 1982.</span><i><o:p></o:p></i><br />
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Farce derives from a theatrical style called <b>vaudeville, </b>which is typically a light or satirical comedy. Vaudevillian plots centered on society and its political, religious and moral failings.<br />
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Light on character development, farce and vaudeville use easily identifiable characters, common language, physical comedy (and for vaudeville, popular songs) to create easy-to-understand performances intended to entertain unsophisticated audiences.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <i>The Oxford Companion to the Theatre</i>; and Pronko, Leonard. <i>Eugene Labiche and Georges Feydeau</i>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>: Grove Press, 1982.</span><i><o:p></o:p></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565969900249944112.post-16272608341867387302010-05-20T13:15:00.000-07:002010-06-07T11:43:38.669-07:00English Translations of L'Hotel du Libre Echange<b>Hotel Paradiso</b>, Adaptation by Peter Glenville, 1957, 1960, London: Heinemann. Published by Samuel French in the USA in 1958. This is the version that was produced on Broadway. It was also the version made into a 1966 film directed by Peter Glenville.<br />
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<b>A Little Hotel on the Side</b>. Translation by Sir John Mortimer, 1984, London: French. First presented at the National Theatre on Aug. 9, 1984. This version was also staged by National Actors Theatre at the Belasco Theatre in New York in 1992.<br />
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<b>Paradise Hotel</b>. Translation by Nicholas Rudall, 1990, Chicago: I.R. Dee. First performed at the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago, Nov. 10, 1989.<br />
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<b>Hotel Peccadillo</b>. Adaptation by Morris Panych, 2007. Premiered at the Shaw Festival in 2007. Published in <i>Still Laughing: Three Adaptations by Morris Panych</i>. Talon Books, 2009.<br />
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