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..."