Multiply the voices of “Richard III” by Shakespeare, on stage at the Dona Maria – Porto Canal

Lisbon 15 out (AFP) – “Richard III” by William Shakespeare, a staging Tonan Quito, which deploys bellicose character by different actors, debuts today at the National Theatre D. Maria II (TNDM ).

“The show oscillates paradoxically between disdain and fascination for this elusive being, Richard III, [which] is the center of himself, the explosion of me,” says the TNDM in statement.

“‘Richard loves Richard, that is, I’m me,” says Richard III in the last scene of this tragedy, and thus will follow, from death to death, lie a lie. We will all Ricardo? “, highlighted Lusa source of TNDM.

The actor and director Tonan Quito, the communiqué released by TNDM, explains how you did the idea of” unfold “the character Richard III by various actors.

“When I first read the text, was when I did ‘Arturo Ui’, with [the group] to Trout, at Culturgest [in Lisbon]. The ‘Arturo U’i is a rewrite that Brecht made of ‘Richard III’. Then I read the original and, at the time, said: ‘This is fantastic,’ bora there to do this. ‘ I then read a second time, then five years ago and thought it was ‘cool’ was if they were to do several of Ricardo, maybe too carried away by his last speech, “explains the director, in a statement released by the National D. Maria II.

The bones of the English monarch, who lived between 1452 and 1485, were found in 2012 buried in a parking lot in Leicester, England, and for TNDM, “is the perfect time to to dig out the homonymous play by William Shakespeare, dated 1592, which reports the most Machiavellian accession to the throne in living memory “.

This discovery inspired the scenario envisioned by Quito, according to which the first image took to the stage “was a dirt field, even before the discovery of the bones.”

“The first stage design was to make an exact reproduction of the site where the bones were discovered, which is a car park in Leicester, but all bumpy, that ditches image. It was to recreate that. Something as realistic as possible on top of that. Could not it was land that would never end. Then we arrived to this version, which is a mixture. Will be five or six tons of it, and there is a gravedigger, which outlines ways, that makes hills, which always announces a death. “

” Richard III “is a coproduction of TNDM with the Centro Cultural Vila Flor in Guimarães, and offers interpretations of António Fonseca, Marcia Breia, Miguel Loureiro, Miguel Moreira, Romeu Runa, Teresa Sobral and own Tonan Quito, among others.

The costumes are by José Antonio Lieutenant, the original music Gonçalo Marques (trumpet) and John Lopes Pereira (percussion).

It is the scene of Garrett room, the TNDM, from October 15 to November 1.

William Shakespeare’s play will have been written in 1591 and the oldest representation known date of 1633, on the anniversary of Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England.

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