Dreams, sweet dreams
MCBTH (Macbeth)
Three witches announcing my future? One can have strange dreams, even to spend a lifetime trying to interpret them. So our mind creates new collages, cutting and pasting old memories and modifying them, or explaining them. Yes, three witches, and Shakespearean. Three weird sisters, three haunted souls born from the pen of William Shakespeare, who return onto the stage to stand before General Macbeth and announce him that he will be the future king of Scotland. But nothing is as it seems, they warn it, "All that is fine and just may be too ugly and disgusting. And all that is ugly and disgusting can also be beautiful and fair. "And Alex Rigola brings us back Macbeth in a very loose adaptation that gets into the recesses of our desires and what we are willing to do to get them. In the same scenery line of his recent Tragèdia from Nietzsche's work, Rigola pours his own vision of the current times over the drama of Macbeth, in a feedback between past and present that poses quite a few questions. The path undertaken by the Scottish general because of his desire for power feeling legitimized by the announcement of the three witches that leads him to think that the end justifies the means, is shown as an eternal dance, an evil waltz that each of us dances with a late Machiavelli which is but a reflection of what we do not see ourselves.
Alex Rigola directs the cast formed by Joan Racing, Oriol Guinart, Miriam Iscla, Lluís Marco, Marc Rodriguez and Alicia Perez counting with the scenery Max Glaenzel in a production that has already been performed in this year's Festival Temporada Alta of Girona-Salt. Iconic elements of Western culture, from Mickey Mouse to football and television, to bring us closer to a drama present in our everyday life, not only in the power fights. As a complement, the review of the movie version filmed in 1948 by Orson Welles.
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Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Macbeth written by William Shakespeare
MCBTH (Macbeth) directed by Àlex Rigola
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