Morning Song is dedicated to everyone who still believes in our civilisation and, especially, who sees the humour in it.
Bizarre coincidence, fate and the forced frivolity of its victims are also the main themes of Jan Lauwers’ play. The story reads like a rapidly written family chronicle and describes the life of Liliane Grandiflora. All the characters are briefly sketched and situated on the family tree and in the end assemble where the action is set, to celebrate a wedding. The tale finishes like a never-ending story.
Morning Song is the second of the two-part stage production No beauty for me there, where human life is rare.The subject of this second part is the quest for the meaning of fate and the accompanying human urge for survival. We already know that the survivors of the disaster in Nicaragua will one day dance again. There is never enough pain to destroy the primal strength to survive.
This is the real beauty of people: their animal urge to survive.
In Morning Song this theme is explored in greater depth through the story of Liliane Grandiflora’s life and family. It is a tragi-comic account of people who keep on thinking they can change their lives then die.
Eight characters take up arms against their fate, in a burlesque style. This leads to laughable situations involving what is glorious and exalted, and to a collective quest for the ‘human condition’, featuring man as the inveterate conjuror of life and artist of survival.
Morning Song is dedicated to everyone who still believes in our civilisation and, especially, who sees the humour in it.
Bizarre coincidence, fate and the forced frivolity of its victims are also the main themes of Jan Lauwers’ play. The story reads like a rapidly written family chronicle and describes the life of Liliane Grandiflora. All the characters are briefly sketched and situated on the family tree and in the end assemble where the action is set, to celebrate a wedding. The tale finishes like a never-ending story.
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