The Sentence

The Sentence (red ink) . Play in Three Acts. “La Sentence” was first performed in Paris after the author’ s death as an oratorio created and directed by master n flutist Francois Veilhan protégé devotee and close friend of the author. This is what he tells us:. A few sentences to tell you why “The Sentence” by Charlotte Delbo is a marvelous theatrical moment for me why I wished for years on end to work the text . ..There is something within it resembling an item of clothing that remained in the shadow of a closet after the death of a beloved friend something immuvable and colored solemn and shared.. Acquaintance with a precise event…birthes in the author the necessity for a “theatrical space.” Not exactly a play as we know them with contradictions confrontations unity alterity characters and action. No more a theatrical space…”