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| At 2003 The Kersouwe will be playing "The Crucible"by Arthur Miller. At 2002 De Kersouwe played Marat/De Sade. It is placed at the French Revolution and tells the story of the murder on Marat, as played by a group of psychologically affected people led by the famous Marquis de Sade. The music is by Richard Peaslee. Below is an excerpt: Peaslee composed original music for the original production by Peter Brook of the famous play known affectionately as "Marat/Sade." It includes 21 numbers — solos, quartets and choruses, and instrumental numbers — which add greatly to the color and vitality of the play. The singers need not be professional; in fact, a certain amateur quality is desirable as the singers are the inmates in the play. Between 1797 and 1811, the director of the Charenton Asylum near Paris established regular theatrical entertainments in his clinic as part of the therapeutic treatment of his patients. The Marquis de Sade, an inmate of Charenton from 1803 until his death in 1814, wrote and directed many of these entertainments; and it became fashionable in Paris to visit the asylum, as much to watch the antics of the lunatics as to watch their performances. The opera is precisely what the full title implies — a drama derived from the actual killing by Charlotte Corday of the extremist leader of the French Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat, told as though performed as a play in the Charenton Asylum About the 2000 performance: This year I've been asked to write the arrangements for this year's performance of "Mistero Buffo". This heavily socially commenting piece is written by Nobel-prize winner Dario Fo. The music is performed live in the open-air theatre "De Kersouwe" by an orchestra consisting of 13 musicians. The songs are inspired by some original recordings of "De Internationale Nieuwe Scene". I arranged the songs in a totally different style. The original tracks were played in a mostly folkish style. The mood of the arrangements change from ballad through tex-mex and swing to latin grooves. The sound relays on the rich sound of the orchestra. This is possible because of the specific setting with clarinets, flutes, saxophones and the brass (trumpets and trombone). The rhythm section consists of drum, bass and keyboards. The musicians are coming from different backgrounds as: symphony orchestras, big-band, jazz-combo and brass-band.
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