Theatre: Minetti

20 allée Nathan Katz

Thomas Bernhard's twilight work, Minetti is a solitary crossing from shadow to light, from death to life. The meticulous and witty writing of the Austrian author makes it a magnificent fable, between comedy and tragedy. One New Year's Eve in Ostend, 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 hasn't acted for three decades, because he refused classical literature. He says he directed a theatre from which he was expelled. And he waited that…