Battuta [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - France ]

France released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Featurette, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Bartabas' first Theatre Zingaro production - Cabaret Équestre, 26 years ago - was a rollicking frenetic romp, complete with drunken waiters, out of control clowns and lots and lots of wild, singing, swirling gypsy music. The productions since then have become steadily more cerebral, and the music less approachable, be it the sound of a Korean singer who used her three octaves to screamher way through Eclipse or the monotone chanting of the Tibetan monks in Loungta. Battuta, Bartabas' latest production, marks a return to those madcap basics. And according to Bartabas, that is probably a simple reaction to the three years he spent with the Tibetan monks in the previous the show Loungta. He likes to say that the monks have left to him a huge peal of laughter. The music for Battuta comes from the Central European Romany tradition - the string musicians of the Transylvanian taraf of Cluj-Napoca, and the horn players in the Shuka fanfare from Zece Prajini in Moldavia. ...Battuta