Trust

As relatively new residents of Avignon, Marc and I needed to experience "the festival", a month-long theater festival that takes place every july.  Trust was the fifth or sixth play we saw together and is part of the "In".  It was in German with a few random rants and songs in English and supertitles in French.  While I don't highly reccomend seeing a play with supertitles, as it makes it very difficult to catch all the action, this was by far my favorite play so far. It consisted of about 3 or 4 couples ranting at eachother and various movements people were constantly melting and falling and fighting and hugging, supporting eachother and pulling eachother down.  It was sort of a meditation on relationships and the economy, codependence and capitalism.  It was sort of depressing but moving and powerful. It made me think about relationships and change and stagnation.  It's hard to explain.  It puts into question our relationship to the economy, how money is everywhere and nowhere the motivation for almost everything and yet lacking any substance or inherent value, how we put all of our faith and hopes into a system that collapses upon itself and betrays us.  Our relationships to others are the same, superficial self-serving and yet unfulfilling, we are constantly seeking novelty and to fill some void, even the happiest most stable of relationships eventually become background noise.  Anyway, I'm not doing a great job explaining it, but it was definitely worth seeing.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-xETzEoQZc