The Sentence

The Sentence (red ink) Play in Three Acts ＂La Sentence＂ was first performed in Paris after the author’ s death as an oratorio created and directed by master n flutist Francois Veilhan, protégé, devotee and close friend of the author. This is what he tells us: ＂A few sentences to tell you why ＂The Sentence＂ by Charlotte Delbo is a marvelous theatrical moment for me, why I wished for years on end to work the text . ..There is something within it resembling an item of clothing that remained in the shadow of a closet after the death of a beloved friend, something immuvable and colored, solemn and shared. Acquaintance with a precise event, ...birthes in the author the necessity for a ＂theatrical space.＂ Not exactly a play, as we know them, with contradictions, confrontations, unity, alterity, characters and action. No, more a theatrical space...＂