I hope anyone in Rome will be interested in the following:
The ishakespeare company presents:
THE TRAGEDIE OF IVLIVS CAESAR
by William Shakespeare
November 2006
13/14/15
21/22/23
28/29/30
20.30
Tickets: 13/10 euros
“anticaja e petrella”
via monti della farina
(zona campo di fiori)
roma, italy
The company’s performance style is a a purer and more ritualistic presentation of theatre. Stripped of unnecessary stage decoration and adornment, every attempt is made to refine the play to its purest and most elegant form of lighting, music, costumes and stage design in order to reveal the raw, dynamic myth beneath and give it life and breath on the stage.
There will be no political angle/dimension/concept to the play – no fascist undertones, no tyrannical threats. The production will follow a theme far more important than mere politics: the sacrifice of Caesar by Brutus, Cassius et al., and its vile corruption of the world.
Tragedy can only begin after desecration: the murder of Caesar is an act of desecration. Nature howls against the conspirators when they plot Caesar’s death: the dead walk again and the sky rains blood. The death of Caesar is the profane act, the violation of harmony, whereby nature is wounded until healed only by the death of those who took Caesar’s life. Blood shall wash away blood.
These themes of sacrifice and purification are the cornerstones of the company’s production.
Hope to see you there!