BETTY NANSEN THEATRE / COPENHAGEN 1993

WRITER: JEAN ANOUILH
DIRECTOR: KLAUS HOFFMEYER

* As the rococo decorations are peeled away (in an inspired scenographic contribution by B.v.H.H.S.), the production mercilessly uncovers the game in all its repetitive blankness.

- Information / Newspaper / Monna Dithmer -

* Klaus Hoffmeyer’s musical, choreographically sure direction and B.v.H.H.S’s simple, very beautiful 18th-century pastiche sets transform a static text into a diverting and intermittently dangerous comedy with a tragic conclusion.

- Berlingske / Newspaper / Me Lund -

* In scenographer B.v.H.H.S’s rococo castle of scenery and concrete walls, life has so to speak been taken prisoner – as theater and void. Under Klaus Hoffmeyer’s choreographed direction – like a hollow comedy of style – the production becomes an in many ways attractive and deadly elegant display of human decay.

- Det fri Aktuelt / Newspaper / Per Theil -