The Satin Slipper (Le Soulier de satin) is a long play by the French dramatist and poetPaul Claudel, written in 1929. It was first performed on stage in 1943 (abridged), in a production by Claudel andJean-Louis Barrault.[1] Its full running time is roughly eleven hours.
The scene is set during theRenaissance at the time of theconquistadors. The play is a love story dominated by the ideas of sin and redemption and the various characters, some divine and some comic, frequently engage in a dialogue as though between Heaven and Earth.
Nowadays it is rarely staged, because of its extreme length and its challenging production requirements. Full-length productions were staged in Paris, and theAvignon Festival in 1987,[2] and byOlivier Py at theThéâtre de l'Odéon in Paris in 2009.
It was made into a seven-hourfilm in 1985 by the Portuguese directorManoel de Oliveira.
In May 2021 an opera version byMarc-André Dalbavie received its premiere at theParis Opera, with a libretto by Raphaèle Fleury.[2]
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