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Zeimes, Josée
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
The multiple identity of the Luxembourger on stage
Josée Zeimes describes the cross-border drama festival Total Theatre, which opened with a play entitled 'Now here and nowhere'. The characters speak several languages - German, French, English, and Luxembourgish. "In one significant scene two women are talking, one in French, the other in German. Although they do not understand each other's language, they understand the emotion conveyed. A language not only serves to communicate through words, it also comes to life in the expression of feelings. ... Yet language comes up against boundaries and contributes to identity, as do other factors. In the end the characters in the play miss each other. They dance round in the same endless circle: they remain foreign to each other and, above all, to themselves. [It is] an unusual play about the multilinguistic Luxembourger identity."
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The theatrical writing of Werner Schwab
Josee Zeimes paints a portrait of the Austrian playwright Werner Schwab (1958-1993), whose play, 'My Liver is Devoid of Sense, or The Extermination of the People', has just been performed at the Esch Theatre. "The Schwabian language is a powerful, destructive and witty form of writing, teeming with striking metaphors ... Werner Schwab is in the grand tradition of Thomas Bernhardt and Elfriede Jelinek, displaying his repugnance for Austria's ultra-Catholic and fascistic society. He launches a full-frontal assault on its people, their visions and utopias, and the human condition in general: his characters are distinguished by a lack of identity, they find themselves bereft of the means to live in this absurd world and get lost in the contradictions of their own words. Yet, it is also language which endows them with some substance and saves them from the void."
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A play with a cutting edge
The Luxembourgeois stage director Paul Kieffer and his compatriot Guy Rewenig, a journalist and writer, are presenting four short plays at the Centaur Theatre (Luxembourg) as part of a multi-lingual show christened Pääsch Melba (Peach Melba). "The title of the show evokes something sweet, a mix of fruit, ice cream, chantilly - what many consider a delicious dessert; transposed, this title refers more generally to something soft - juicy flesh from which one has extracted the hard core. In politics, for instance, in order to make someone swallow a hard-to-digest pill, you wrap it in nice packaging. In this way, cruel reality loses its sharp and inhuman taste," writes Josée Zeimes. "With a biting irony and a flair for invention, the show denounces a world that is manipulated by whomever holds power, however fleetingly..."
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