Synopsis: Monaco

Group: Studio de Monaco 

Title: Chronicle of a Love Date

Playwright: Collective work based on Xavier Durringer

Year: 2010

Genre: Contemporary satire

Direction: Peggy Semeria

Composer: Angelo Badalamenti - Barbara

 

This show begins with a presentation of the situation. People looking for love.

 

It is one giant speed dating. Each character is going to introduce himself; to admit, to reveal. All is going to be told in trying to find a soul mate. Rapidly, the neurosis of each appears. They are all more or less anti-heroes; the types are the big shy, the disillusioned, the idealist, the awkward, the myth maniac, etc.

They are all incapable of speaking to one another, of seeing each other, of meeting. In the show, we enhance their defects, we mock their limitations which ultimately could be anyone's at any moment of life. The humor is: laughing at themselves.

 

In the second part, all eventually meet. We see them becoming entangled couples with all the difficulties of communication; the quarrels, the frustrations.

 

All of this is displayed to ridicule them. It is not a dark show, we have fun by laughing at the human race. In the end, a reality appears. All need love, and want to give it. As we all do!