Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Translated by Yves Bonnefoy
Directed by Silvia Costa
Richelieu
26 March 20 July 2024
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Richelieu
Macbeth
2024-03-26 20:30:00 2024-07-20 23:00:00
TicketsFor her second time at the Comédie- Française, following Annie Ernaux’s Mémoire de fille (A Girl’s Story) in June 2023, Silvia Costa selected the piece superstition requires to be referred to as “the Scottish play” – while some people even call the murderous couple “M.” and “Lady M.”.
The play was added to the Répertoire in 1985 when Jean-Pierre Vincent directed it at the Festival d’Avignon honours courtyard; this nighttime tragedy remains fascinating due to its intense, bloodthirsty quality combined with the importance of its supernatural dimension.
The Italian director, whose work has been prominently featured these last few years in theatres and operas, tackles the destiny of general Macbeth. He was told by three witches he would become king; obsessed with this prophecy, he commits regicide with the help of his wife. After generous and honest king Duncan is killed comes the turn of his friend Banquo, the troublesome witness. The couple is strangled by guilt and descends into madness. The usurper and his wife – who keeps seeing her hands tainted with blood – seem to mould into a single figure of human complexity.
Since the three fatal sisters’ announcement in the first scene, (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.”) the whole play relies on a disarray of values which draw the intimate up to the moral and political spheres: between right and wrong, soundness and madness, the real and the imaginary, transgression and thirst for power, life and death, the male and female figures... Silvia Costa fashioned a metaphorical environment matching the labyrinth encased within the king’s conscience. “Life’s but a walking shadow”, says Macbeth, whose unearthing of his darkest desires gradually lead to self-discovery.
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With the generous support of Aline Foriel-Destezet, great patron of the arts.
Creative team
Adaptation, direction and scenography: Silvia Costa
Dramaturgy: Simon Hatab
Scenography: Michele Taborelli
Costumes: Camille Assaf
Lighting: Marco Giusti
Original music and sound: Nicola Ratti
Assistant Director: Alison Hornus
and the Académie de la Comédie-Française:
Assistant director: Mathilde Waeber
Scenography assistant: Dimitri Lenin
Costume assistantship: Alma Bousquet
Sound assistant: Ania Zante
Distribution
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Voice of the Child: Marceau Adam Conan
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Gallery
Macbeth 23-24
Suliane Brahim, Julien Frison, Jennifer Decker
Macbeth 23-24
Julien Frison, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Suliane Brahim, Jennifer Decker
Macbeth 23-24
Noam Morgensztern
Macbeth 23-24
Noam Morgensztern, Suliane Brahim, Birane Ba, Clément Bresson, Alain Lenglet, Jennifer Decker, Julie Sicard
Macbeth 23-24
Julie Sicard
Macbeth 23-24
Alain Lenglet
Macbeth 23-24
Pierre Louis-Calixte, Noam Morgensztern
