Gabriele Lavia seems as if he intended to stage a text by EA Poe, then, by chance, found himself in the hands of Macbeth W. Shakespeare, the setting is indeed very dark , the vast stage of the theater Argentina was sparsely filled with a few chairs, stones, or even more often, nothing. A ubiquitous background music makes it even darker atmosphere. Everything seems to want to externalize the state of the protagonist who lives in perpetual fear and loneliness of his actions. Loneliness that is felt even more precisely when the scene is populated by a large number of characters (15 actors appear in all), a feeling that is projected on the ground scattered all over the stage, and racing in the fast movements of the actors to fill in brief time throughout the stage space, a space larger than themselves, a space that reminds the characters (and the public) even though their tragic smallness of the "large" (Macbeth, in fact, becomes king). Lavia
totally abandon the classical view swords and duels and the characters wear very long jackets with hats which resemble the uniforms of the Nazi concentration camps. The weapons used, not surprisingly, it is the sound of guns thirties. The bad are executed with a gunshot wound to the neck. If we were to interpret this choice, we could say that the director wanted to represent modernity has famously become known to a Shakespearean tragedy.
actors, how about that, there are many but they are always the same ones that stand out, others, for the most part, serve as a side dish. However everyone has the merit of having been able to manage itself from within in order to create a perfect symbiosis with all choral the group and this is true for men and for the three girls who played the witches (really excellent).
It would, however, rather than talk about the rhetorical skill of Lavia's role so I'll just say that it is the excellent mix of solemnity and cowardice of the hero while Giovanna Di Rauso Lady has made her arrogant and despotic exactly as expected.
The only possibly negative of the show is that everything, in some places, it is rather heavy and difficult to follow, then perhaps it is only recommended to fans of the genre.
Information:
Title: Macbeth
Author:
William Shakespeare Directed by: Gabriele Lavia
Cast: Gabriele Lavia , Giovanna Di Rauso, Maurizio Lombardi, Biagio Forestieri, Patrick Cigliano, Mario Pietramala, Alessandro Parise, Michele Demaria, Daniel Dwerryhouse, Fabrizio Vona Andrea Macaluso, Mauro Celaia, Giorgia Sinicorni, Degani Chiara, Giulia Galiani
Where: Theatre Argentina : Largo Argentina, 52 (Old Town)
Rating: 8 / 10
