"Everybody has a game where he gives in a couple he'd like to have back," he said.
Celan's poem gives, in a very compact form, a piercing expression to unprecedented horrors that otherwise would lie speechless within us.
The teen-aged correspondent wrote in her notebook, nodded, and then supplied the answer that Ringo gives in "A Hard Day's Night": "I'd say that you're a Mocker".
The staging, lavishly furnished with dancers, supernumeraries and beautiful costumes designed by Anna Watkins, is almost everywhere a joy, though Mr. Blin gives in a little too readily to the farcical aspects.
With a similar structure to the Slumdog Millionaire, we keep up with her story through an interview she gives in a talk show much like the famous American ones we are familiar with.
Olivia Vinall's Nina, the third in a remarkable trio of performances the actor gives in a single day, also differs from previous Ninas in suggesting the character is a water-nymph who, like the Ondine of legend, cannot survive in the harsh world of reality.
