Our daily routine includes eating in the restaurant at PPS. The restaurant normally is only open when there is a performance, so for the rest of the time it is just peopled by the two of us and some French people whom we’ve gotten to know.
They work for a company called Ubi which is owned by someone called Saro and another person who is not in Cambodia or working closely on this project. Although we tend to think of Saro as French, he is actually half Cambodian himself. His mother was the daughter of a Cambodian minister before the Khmer Rouge took power, so we imagine she must have been quite well off. When the Khmer Rouge took over circumstances changed rather dramatically for her.
So Saro’s mother found herself in France and that was where Saro was born and grew up. Now, some years later, he is in Cambodia producing a show called Rouge. It is a non-linguistic dance/circus production which will explore the emotions that surround the Khmer Rouge regime.
Apparently the show will tour in Europe including the UK, at least in Milton Keynes and probably in London as well. Knowing what we do about the background to the people involved in the production, we think we would find the production fascinating, so we’re looking forward to seeing it when it comes here in about July 2012.
We didn’t get round to seeing them in rehearsal, but here’s a video from their website http://www.cie-ubi.com. We don’t know how much the performance will have changed by the time it comes to be performed, but this 5-min video might give some idea.
Rouge extracts 5' par sarosinay
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