Theatre: Minetti

20 allée Nathan Katz

Thomas Bernhard’s twilight work Minetti is a solitary journey from shadow to light, from death to life. The Austrian author’s meticulous and witty writing makes it a magnificent fable, between comedy and tragedy. One New Year’s Eve in Ostende in 1975, in the lobby of a grand hotel, a man enters. He says his name is Minetti and that he has an appointment with a theatre director. He says he is a famous actor who has not acted for three decades, because he refused classical literature. He says he once headed a theatre that he was driven out of. And he has waited for…