Plantation A . . .
Author(s):
Based on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel Jealousy, composed by Edward Jessen
Company:
Phaedra Ensemble
Robbe-Grillet’s breakthrough novel, Jealousy (1957), repeatedly visits an assortment of compact scenes—each within the same day-and-a-half window—on adjacent plantations in an undisclosed location.
The sum of these descriptions leads the story’s narrator, a man brought to a standstill by jealousy, to suspect an infidelity between his wife and their neighbour. What’s missing is the character whose very name contains an ellipse—three dots. We know her only as A…