At 8.45 pm
In Italian language
dramaturgy by Lella Costa and Gabriele Vacis
with Lella Costa
scenography by Roberto Tarasco
sets by Lucia Diana
directed by Gabriele Vacis
production: Teatro Carcano
distribution: Mismaonda
‘Of precise words one lives, and of great theatre’.
Ivano Fossati, Discanto.
It happens with great authors, perhaps especially with Shakespeare: their texts, their stories, their characters are, literally, immortal. They continue to speak to us, to amaze us, to enchant us; sometimes they even help us to understand who we are, what is happening to us now.
And when you meet one of these perfect stories you usually fall in love with it, and above all you realise that there would be no point in trying to invent another one to say the same things, but that it is legitimate, perhaps even right, to continue telling that one. Precisely that one.
That is what happened to Gabriele Vacis and me, and not just once.
It is what excited us so much to think of bringing Othello back on stage after 24 years, preserving intact the narrative substance (Shakespeare) but intervening and modifying those parts where topicality, or rather contemporaneity, required an update. Those parts in which the Bard himself amused himself by inserting allusions and quotations that are incomprehensible to us (who on earth is that ‘Signor Angelo’ who even conditions the Doge?), but which were certainly very clear to the spectators of the time, and probably very amusing. If we then add to this a dazzling plot, the summary of which might sound like a news story of today (a highly skilled foreign worker, a mixed marriage, a petty and skilful manipulation, a malicious and unscrupulous use of language, a feminicide with subsequent suicide of the culprit), then we realise how much we need to keep telling and listening to this story.
Precisely this one.
Lella Costa
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