Talk:Les mariés de la tour Eiffel

Ballet and/or play?
Is this really a ballet? It has a lot of spoken lines for a ballet, and in his preface, Cocteau refers to it as a play. Could we call it a hybrid play-ballet? Aristophanes 68  (talk)  03:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmm. It has parts for 2 narrators.  Even 1 narrator is highly unusual for a ballet.  But then, it's highly unusual to have a chorus in the last movement of a piano concerto, yet Busoni's Concerto is always so categorised and not as "Chorus with an extremely long introduction from a piano and orchestra".  I've never seen or heard Les mariés complete; all I know of it is the music, so I'm not in a position to give an educated view of whether the 2 narrators interact in such a way as to constitute a dialogue and a drama, or whether they're just there to provide a sort of ongoing surrealist commentary.  But then, why is there a need for 2 of them?  Curious.  Do any references call it anything other than just "ballet"?--  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  06:58, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Here's what I got from searching eiffel tower play at Google Book Search -- I see a lot of references to it as a play. At the same time, it has lots of characters but only two speaking parts (named "phonographs" in my copy), so it may well be a hybrid form of theatre that is both play and ballet. I notice one of the encyclopediae calls it a "spectacle". Aristophanes 68   (talk)  18:54, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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