THEATRE FESTIVAL

Clôture de l’Amour

Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin Sep 28-29 7.30pm €25 dublintheatrefestival.com

Say what will about heartbreak, it can be a very potent muse. In Pascal Rambert’s performance with French company TG2, first staged at the 2011 Festival d’Avignon and since toured throughout the world, Rambert and the actress Audrey Bonnet stand opposite each other as a couple caught in a bitter, explosive endgame. She stands in silence as his words fly out like “glistening blades . . . triggered, armed, carefully ordered” in the articulation of the closure of love. She returns them in hard and blunt rebukes, while checking his words for meaning. Are words designed to hurt the sure sign of love that is depleted and exhausted, or a dark parody of a former passion?