French Actress Dominique Blanc, who has won four Cesar awards, will perform the La Douleur play (The War: A Memoir) at the Hanoi Opera House at 8:00 pm February 24.
The drama, directed by Patrice Chereau and Thierry Thieu Niang, won Dominique the best theatrical actress the second time in her artistic career at the Moliere Awards last year after she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 65th Venice Film Festival in 2008.
“The War: A Memoir” is based on the diary Marguerite Duras kept during the war while she was waiting for her husband Robert to return from a concentration camp at Dachau.
She wrote the diary as a testimony of her own suffering during the war, which reflects a punishing absence, despair, the shame of being alive while waiting for a loved one to survive unspeakable horrors.
Dominique Blanc adds a unique resonance to the drama when her performance style is thought to be simple, yet intense.
Born 1956 in Lyon, Dominique Blanc trained at the French Drama School in Cours Florent. Dominique, who is one of the most critically acclaimed French actresses, has won four César Awards including one for Best actress in 2000 for “Stand-by” and three for Best actress in a supporting role, in 1990 for “Milou en mai”, in 1992 for “Indochine” and in 1998 for “Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train.” Marguerite Duras - who was born in 1914 in Gia Dinh, near Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam - is the author of many novels, plays, films, essays and short fiction, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L'Amant (The Lover) in 1984, about a fifteen-year-old girl’s relationship with an older Chinese businessman. The late writer also wrote the script for the film “Hiroshima mon amour” and directed her own films, including “India Song”. She died of throat cancer in Paris at the age of 81. |
