First show of the 2013 program of the Vicenza Theatre, ‘Macbeth’, the well known tragedy by William Shakespeare, in the modern version directed by Italian director Andrea De Rosa, with translation by Nadia Fusin,is a production by Fondazione Teatro Stabile of Torino and of Teatro Stabile of Veneto “Carlo Goldoni”.
Main role given to  the remarkable Italian actor Giuseppe Battiston, extraordinary at cinema and on theatre too, known for his role in the movie by Slvio Soldini “Pane e tulipani“, here on stage here with Frédérique Loliée as Lady Macbeth.

In an extraordinary and contemporary view of evil as something pulp, the De Rosa show gives to the original piece a red and horror connotation, where the very psychedelyc lights and techno music make the public involved into the text and the story.

Macbeth is a very modern character, struggled between horrible nightmares trapping him in the middle of ambition and justice, desperation and freewill.
His Lady, determinate to be the base of violence and sweetness at the same time, falls down as she finally becomes Queen, incapable to come out from some kind of nevrosis that will be studied, in the future, also by Freud.

Horror theatre show, full of ghosts and psychologically brutal as in the tv series of crimes, and paradoxically in a modern and party-time place, where the euphoria of success kidnaps everyone and condemns any character to be a victim of his own ambition.

De Rosa gives to the three witches a spoken-toys-look-like as three never born that make the show more disturbing, giving the idea that the real drama focuses on the failure of motherhood.

Power and ambition, mother and children: great show by the Italian company and Battiston.

By Ilaria Rebecchi

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