2024-06-16 23:10:15
Photograph: Vienna Pageant Week
Wiener Pageant/New Artwork Theater:
Tempest plan
Tailored from “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
Authors: Peter Brook and Mary Helen Estienne
Manufacturing: Worldwide Heart for Theater Creation/Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris)
Premiere: June 2021, Comedy Spring (Montpellier)
Vienna Pageant Week Premiere: June 12, 2024
The ultimate present, postponed as a result of Friday’s cancellation, will probably be held on the followingnoon of June 16, 2024
The magic of minimalism
What does theater want? Max Reinhart knew this: principally nothing however an actor. After all, there are administrators like him (or Peter Brook or George Strehler) who’re artists who direct these actors to pay homage to the poet who gave them life. So long as they don’t use brutal drive on the poet, they’ve full freedom of creativeness.
It doesn’t take a lot effort – Peter Brook referred to as The Empty Room his commonplace work, and in direction of the tip of his life, with The Empty Room he returned to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a piece It’s a work that he has been busy creating all his life. His Tempest premiered on the Vienna Music Pageant in 1991. Now a swan tune once more – shortly following the premiere of this model of “The Tempest” (additionally in French), the director died in Paris on July 2, 2022, on the age of 97. His swan tune might not have been higher.
there once more Peter Brook It evokes empty areas and quiet sounds, in stark distinction to the extraordinarily superficial, noisy, extreme, and most hideous theater that dominates our levels. He approached “The Storm” in a minimalist method (he additionally added new textual content with collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne). He renounces every little thing associated to the “foremost and nationwide motion” of the work, the evil brother doesn’t seem, and solely on the finish Prospero will return to the world and demand his rule once more – so mildly that in our Violent instances might be resurrected. However now he had solely been on the island for an hour and a half.
Ellie I will preserve at it Not even the age, measurement, and visible dignity that outdated Prospero brings to our stage. But all of the dark-skinned man wanted was an extended wood stick (considerably harking back to Wotan’s spear) to face there with full dignity and supremely quiet humor, turning into the magician of his world – in a A stone, some wooden, some carpet on an virtually empty stage. No extra is required. While you want magical music, there is not any orchestra however delicate feminine vocals to fulfill your wants. Pure minimalism. Now you might be on the island, experiencing uncommon fragments of the work which are so necessary to Brooke’s closing argument.
Amongst them are Ariel (not an air spirit, however very earthy) and Caliban, not a monster this time however a defiant, silly younger man who later involves a touching realization. There’s Miranda, daughter (Paula Luna virtually unbelievably harmless), and of all of the individuals who seem on the island in Shakespeare, this model solely permits in three – Ferdinand, in order that he and Miranda can fall in love with one another in an virtually irresistibly endearing method , and Stefano and Trinculo, these loud-mouthed drunks who gained a particular attract from having twins (Fabio and Luca Maniglio)’s solid is excellent.
While you notice that solely six performers took their bows on the finish, you may notice once you see seven performers on stage Sylvain Levitt Not solely the infantile Caliban, but in addition the lover Ferdinand. Whether or not there’s a deeper that means behind this, who is aware of? Regardless, it is enticing.
By means of Brooke, they each developed a enjoying type that (even when lounging loudly) had an internal silence. They aren’t “theatre” in any respect, however they’re very actual – actual, however not artificially “actual”, and their performances matter-of-factly go away the viewers breathless. Till the ultimate burst of thunderous applause.
You do not expertise one thing like this every single day. You might possibly do with out all the opposite items from this pageant week – however not this one.
Renate Wagner
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