Macbeth
after William Shakespeare
adapted, directed and staged by Silvia Costa
translated by Yves Bonnefoy
Richelieu
Richelieu
Macbeth
2025-01-24 00:00:00 2025-05-11 00:00:00
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 superstitiously referred to as “the Scottish play” – some people even call the murderous couple “M.” and “Lady M.”.
The play was added to the Répertoire in 1985; this nighttime tragedy remains fascinating due to its intense, bloodthirsty quality combined with the importance of its supernatural dimension.
The Italian director 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. Per the three fatal sisters’ announcement, (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.”) the whole play relies on a disarray of values extending 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, 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, gradually unearthing his darkest desires.
This show premiered on March 26, 2024 at the Salle Richelieu
2.15 (without intermission)
Creative team
Adaptation, direction and scenography: Silvia Costa
Translation: Yves Bonnefoy
Dramaturgy: Simon Hatab
Scenography: Michele Taborelli
Costumes: Camille Assaf
Lighting: Marco Giusti
Original music and sound: Nicola Ratti
Assistant director: Alison Hornus and Mathilde Waeber
Assistant scenography: Dimitri Lenin
Assistant costume designer: Alma Bousquet
Assistant sound designer: Ania Zante
Distribution
the company
Voice of the Child: Marceau Adam Conan
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