Glass - Einstein on the Beach
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Friday January 10 2014 Conductor: Michael Riesman. Production, set and lighting design: Robert Wilson. Costumes: Carlos Soto. Lighting: Urs Schönebaum. Sound: Kurt Munkasci. Choreography: Lucinda Childs. With: Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman, The Lucinda Childs Dance Company, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Einstein on the Beach Chorus. "The amazing thing," said a friend as we left the Théâtre du Châtelet, "is that we've sat through this for four-and-a-half hours, without an interval..." - I wondered where he was heading - "and still weren't bored shitless* like at L'Amour de Loin . Yet that was much shorter". He was right. Einstein on the Beach is a long work and, as when you get to the end of A la recherche du temps perdu , you almost expect a reward: an "I finished Proust" or "I survived Einstein " tee-shirt. But you soon slip into the (very slow) rhythm of it, and the truth is tha...