19th and 20th December
9.30pm
Auditório Nacional Carlos Alberto
Meno Fortas (Lituânia)
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Lithuanian translation Aleksis Churginas
Set Marius Nekrosius
Costumes Nadezda Gultiajeva
Music Faustas Latenas
Lighting design Audrius Jankauskas
Co-production Festival di Palermo sul Novecento • Teatro Biondo Stabile di Palermo • Meno Fortas (Vilnius) • Fondazione Oriestadi di Gibelina • Aldo Miguel Grompone (Lithuania)
Performed in Lithuanian, with Portuguese subtitles.
Approximate length: 3 hrs 20min (with 2 intervals)
Prompted by the tremendous success of The Three Sisters,
in the 1997 edition of PONTI, we have again invited the Lithuanian director, Eimuntas
Nekrosius. On this occasion, it is the words of Shakespeare, the darkness and anguish of
Macbeth, that will be subject to Nekrosius' poetic process in which the actors are
revealed to us as flashing apparitions, vortices of energy that direct the audience to the
centre of the scene, filling it with the purest, most absolute emotion. An unmissable
mystery.
"Murder cannot be justified. Our challenge is to
try and justify it, we approach the story of Macbeth from the point of view of a lawyer.
Another challenge that interests me is to manage to express the mysterious side of the
text. I always put on the same production. I am not looking for new modes of expression.
All that I am looking for is nothing more than the heat and the humanity of rigor in the
coolness of the text."
Eimuntas Nekrosius - La Sicilia