{"id":7082,"date":"2017-12-01T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinormond.com\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:35:25","slug":"die-nacht-kurz-vor-den-waldern-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinormond.com\/en\/die-nacht-kurz-vor-den-waldern-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Just Before the Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Night Just Before the Forests<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Bernard-Marie Kolt\u00e8s \u2013 Theater Basel (2017)<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robin Ormond\u2019s first encounter with Kolt\u00e8s\u2019s text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a nearly documentary setting, the man from The Night Just Before the Forests<\/em> appears as a transient figure \u2014 caught between belonging and exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The monologue becomes a physical space, a breath that struggles to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text: Bernard-Marie Kolt\u00e8s
Direction: Robin Ormond
Performer: Michael W\u00e4chter
Production: Theater Basel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9\ufe0f Photo credit : Kim Culetto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press excerpt <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

S\u00fcdkurier \u2013 Siegbert Kopp (September 26th 2017)<\/em><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThis is anything but a classical evening at the theatre.
With The Night Just Before the Forests<\/em>, Robin Ormond and Michael W\u00e4chter lead the audience through bars, alleys and across the Rhine.
W\u00e4chter embodies a man on the edge \u2013 raw, angry, and vulnerable \u2013 desperately searching for a room and someone to talk to.
He remains completely convincing: an outcast drawing us deep into the night.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Basler Zeitung \u2013 Clara Vuille-dit-Bille (2017)<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cIn Robin Ormond\u2019s staging, the city becomes the backdrop of the monologue.
The audience follows a body in motion, a voice ceaselessly seeking contact.
Michael W\u00e4chter moves between rage and fragility, irony and panic \u2013 Kolt\u00e8s\u2019s text regains its original power: a voice struggling to survive in public space.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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