The 2013 season will be opened by the direction of Gigi Proietti who, after 10 years, will give the public a new staging of the classic among the classics: Romeo and Juliet. The Silvano Toti Globe Theater is ten years old and, from a qualitative point of view, it proves them all, both for the high level of performances it offered in this period, and for the ever-growing number of spectators, and for its highly acclaimed replies and the alternation on stage of the most beautiful works by Shakespeare: from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Othello, from The Tempest to Julius Caesar to the Taming of the Shrew and Richard III, just to name a few.
So a ten-year anniversary in grand style that sees him as the undisputed protagonist of the Shakespearean theater in Italy with a gift that the artistic director, Gigi Proietti, wants to do to the city and the general public of the Globe: a return to Shakespearean direction by proposing – like ten years ago – a new production of Romeo and Juliet.
A "second time" in which Proietti will revisit and develop intuitions and thoughts left unexpressed, discarded at the time in favor of others. A similar but different staging compared to that of 2003, with even younger interpreters to further underline the gap between generations. This new Romeo and Juliet takes place in two eras: the first part in the present day, Mercutio and his friends give voice to their passions as light rappers, Giulietta is a good girl who loves rock, the party is a masked ball. But, after the first glance between the two boys, the magic projects them into the dream of distant eras where neither of the two young people crosses the border of maturity and no adult knows how to guide them on this path. Two realities, two centuries, two worlds in which one passes from the game to the grave – as can happen at any time – in the destruction of the future.
A dance show – from 31 July to 3 August – choreographed and directed by Massimo Moricone will also celebrate Romeo and Juliet, a representation that arrives in Italy twenty-two years after its first staging. Exceptional performers, directly from the Royal Ballet of London, Alina Cojocaru true star of world-famous dance who performs for the first time in Rome with Federico Bonelli, Italian excellence refined and sensitive interpreter. A splendid reworking of the original choreography which is adapted to the scenic space of the Globe, recreating atmospheres and visions of pure Elizabethan flavor around the two young lovers. Scenes of raw violence between the two enemy families alternate with the intense passion that will drag the two lovers towards their tragic epilogue.
The world is crazy and love is crazy. It reminds us Riccardo Cavallo directing A Midsummer Night's Dream which, punctual and always awaited by the public, will return for the seventh consecutive time from 13 to 25 August. The work was written on the occasion of a wedding and represents, like a Chinese box, a bewitched world dominated by whim and despotism. Different languages that intertwine: that of fairies which alternates blank verse, songs and nursery rhymes, that of lovers dominated by love lyrics and that of craftsmen, in which everyday prose is interrupted by the clumsy parody of refined verse. A representation that tells us about the short time of happiness with a subtle background of melancholy.
From 29 August to 8 September directed by Marco Carniti brings to the stage, with Riccardo III, the unfolding of history and power through the centuries. History that takes place thanks to the ingenious product of human bestiality, Power. The eternal Power that never dies and is reborn with a thousand faces. Riccardo's mission is just a small piece of the gigantic gear of history, an extraordinary man mix of cruelty amorality unbridled self-centeredness and, at the same time, purity and extraordinary irony. A representation in which Riccardo, passing over all the corpses that separate him from the crown, operates a horrible necessary path of redemption, where every crime is offered as a gift to help man's metamorphosis.
Closes the programming of the tenth anniversary, King Lear from 12 to 22 September a study directed by Daniele Salvo, who once again faces this inexhaustible text with a company made up almost entirely of young people. Lear, legendary ruler of Britain, embodies the tragedy of fathers, unable to understand their children and blind to their flattery. An analysis of Power and its effects on the human mind: the boundless ego blinds the eyes of the sovereign and the politician up to total emotional isolation. The scenography is essential because the action is transferred to an interior level. And the lightning, thunder and rain that are represented on stage are nothing more than the metaphor of a tormented emotionality: madness, innocence, energy, sweetness and determination, typical characteristics of young people.
The curtain therefore rises on the summer magic of Villa Borghese, the Elizabethan theater turns on its lights and the spell of the bard begins once again. A season, that of 2013, made up of 4 performances and a ballet for 60 high quality evenings. All shows will start at 21.15pm with the exception of King Lear at 20.45pm.
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