Em abril, mais uma produção do Manufactura.
Segurem-se em suas poltronas e preparem os corações.....
beijos e abraços
tem a ver com Pirandello; mando uma canja sobre o que fez Mauricio na escócia com o autor siciliano...
Last night's first night
By MARK BROWN
The Mountain Giants
RSAMD, Glasgow
THERE could be no question that the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is plumping for soft theatrical options. As their contribution to this Scambiane mini-festival of Italian culture, the final year acting students present Pirandello’s disquieting existentialist drama, The Mountain Giants (playing at the RSAMD until next Thursday).
From the outset, as a bedraggled line of travelling actors stand before us, it is apparent we are witnessing a work of nascent modernism. The putative fourth wall between actors and audience has gone. The performers stand pressed against the front row, while Cotrone, their would-be patron and saviour, sits amid the crowd.
This is precisely as it should be, for this is a play of the most self-conscious theatricality. Shakespeare informed us that the whole world is a stage, but it was Pirandello who made the actors’ ensemble a motif for the human condition. Led by the seemingly blind,
beggarly count, these thespians remind one of Vladimir and Estragon from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
All human life seems contained without the troupe’s search for an audience. Ilse, their leading lady and "countess", is at once their reason for being and the source of their woe.
Reverence and loyalty joust with sexual and personal jealousy, while the company is drawn ever further into Cotrone’s world of questions. Religious and ritual become performance, and art becomes life. Finally, as the mountain giants of the play’s title offer the actors an audience, Pirandello’s ironic pathos resolves itself in an extraordinary debate about whether an audience is superfluous or, in fact, worth risking one’s life for.
This is a complex, troubling and hilarious play, and experienced director Mauricio Paroni De Castro has drawn a largely strong ensemble performance from his young cast.
The full article contains 315 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
Last Updated: 16 May 2003 12:31 AM
