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Macbeth (a study)

by William Shakespeare
translated by Ion Vinea

CAST:
MACBETH – Ion Caramitru
LADY MACBETH – Valeria Seciu
DUNCAN, KING OF SCOTLAND – Matei Alexandru / Mircea Anca
MALCOLM, HIS SON – Mihai Calotă
BANQUO, A SCOTTISH DOCTOR – Mircea Rusu
MACDUFF, A SERGEANT – Dorin Andone
LENNOX, SEYTON, A MURDERER – Ovidiu Cuncea
ROSS, A THANE, SIWARD – Eduard Adam
A PORTER, A MURDERER, A MESSENGER – Alexandru Bindea
LADY MACDUFF, A WITCH – Ana Ciontea
A WITCH – Victoria Dicu
A WITCH, FLEANCE, THE GENTLEWOMAN – Amalia Ciolan
A BOY – Răzvan Cristian Stroe / Petru Cuncea
MESSENGERS, SERVANTS, SOLDIERS, MUSICIANS, SOUND EFFECTS – Monica Anastase, Alexandru Mărculescu, Mihai Munteniţă, Celina Niţu, Ştefan Opreanu, Andrei Stoleriu

Directed by: Radu Penciulescu
Scenography: Florilena Popescu Fărcăşanu
Original music: Iosif Herţea
Lights: Richard Stan, Alexandru Sanda
Multimedia: Andrei Dăscălescu

Play duration: 3h (with intermission)

Thunders and lightnings. And three witches who decide to meet Macbeth, who they predict will become king. In the next scene, a sergeant tells Duncan, the king of Scotland, that his generals Macbeth and Banquo return victorious from the battle against the rebel Scottish nobles, after defeating the allied forces of Norway and Ireland.
Entitled Macbeth (a study) to emphasize its experimental, workshop character, the show utilizes only the key moments from the play. The stage director is very economical with his means, and brings into view stage techniques, as in Shakespeare’s time, attempting an analysis of the mechanism of Power, with its corrupting, dehumanizing effect, and propounding to the actors individual and group study themes liable to further development. The staging becomes thus a professed work in progress.

The Ion Sava Center for Theater Research and Creation, created at the initiative of the stage director Andrei Şerban, operates in the Bucharest National Theater, periodically organizing master workshops for young actors and directors. It also produces shows and publishes specialized literature.

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Photo: Augustin Bucur

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