SHAKESPEARE TO DRIVE Author: W. Shakespeare. Adaptation: E. Hall and R. Warren. Director: E. Hall. Starring: R. Clothier, J. Dougall, R. Hands, D. Tighe, K. Brookfield, S. Swainsbury, W. Cather, T. Padden, D. Bruce-Lockhart, J. Trenchard, C. Myles, T. Bell, D. Newman. Canal Companies . Madrid, 11 and 12-V-2011.
A theatrical territory where everything is allowed, subject only to the law of the talent and the power of imagination. In this Neverland actors fly like lost children. It is a land of possibilities, where the executive arm of the orders of crafty cowards protagonist of "Richard III" seems taken from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the sheriff to impose order in the confusion of 'The Comedy of Errors "recalls the police of the Village People. Some Englishmen, fortunately, have not forgotten that polysemy sister in their language, acting and playing terms.
Return to Madrid company Propeller ("Propeller") reminds us that theater can and should be entertaining, this broad concept that encompasses as a crazy comedy like twins separated at birth and both called Antipholus, one in Ephesus, one in Syracuse, as a major tragedy like the portrait of evil and ambition which is rising deformed to the English throne of Gloucester murderer. Propeller theater taken less seriously than other British formations such as the Royal Shakespeare Company or Cheek by Jowl, the spirit is more irreverent. Winks, noises, jingles, everything is oriented to direct enjoyment. Sometimes they're little subtle, but certainly not boring.
is a success of Spring Fall Festival open meeting with them twice to see they do what they do. The direction of Edward Hall Ephesus transforms into a "resort" cheesy eighties music and televangelists, and allows his team to shine in comic excess. More gloomy, his "Richard III" takes us to a hospital where the excesses of nineteenth-century tyrant resolved to the Grand Guignol between screens, plastic slaughterhouse, injections and blood dotting chainsaws, lots of blood. And all with an impeccable line, said by actorazo (all men) as Richard Clothier, Dominic Tighe, Robert Hands-divertÃsima the Adrienne, and Chris Myles-priceless their abbess, to name but a few.
Photo: "The comedy of errors"
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