Note of intent

 

How to make a big kerfuffle of love for four (2 actors and 2 singers):

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Ingredients:

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- A pond in the far-off countryside

- Two promised lovers, just for the sake of it

- An exile, who come from who knows where, looking for a lost childhood and illusory innocence

- A cameleon traveler, who is a little ‘comme ci, comme ça’, ( the way it suits him in fact)

- Astonishing music with strange sounds

- Words – in the right and the wrong order

- Everything and anything

- Sort of anywhere, take care to choose a bit of everything and just anything, in short what you need to make a Love Box.

Do whatever it takes to find a pond and delicately put the buried wishes and strange pulsions at the bottom. Put two or three frogs as well, they will come in useful afterward. One bed will do as it will be the lovers’ home, the place for dreams too, the place for fantasy and pleasure.

Delicately slip the promised lovers between the sheets, a tenor and an actress say.

Sprinkle the angry spice of an exile’s nasty mug over the sizzling couple and when the whole thing is simmering, pour water on the vocal mistakes of a hysterical seductive viola, who has come from everywhere and anywhere

 

The whole thing will stir itself to the rhythm of the music and the farce and bring up what lies dormant at the bottom of the pond.

Your Love Box is now beginning to take the shape of a real mess of love. It is now a comedy and its unpredictable cooling process must be watched carefully: there will be surprises, bombshells, and unrealistic rebounds.

At the last moment, add two frogs living at the bottom of the pond, two very old frogs who have seen it all and weren’t born yesterday. Put the frogs with the rest of the audience, watch them carefully, invent as you go along, and add salt and pepper to your taste.

Your Love Box is making more and more of a mess, the link between the characters is more and more twisted, and they become tense, stiffen, and relax at full speed in all directions.