Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller

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Auteur(s) : Friedrich Schiller

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 128

Expédition : 165

Dimensions : 21.1 x 12.8 x 1.2

ISBN : 9781786820259

Résumé :

Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director. In 2018, he won the Kurt H?bner Award for his debut production in Germany, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


His work as Associate Director of the Almeida Theatre has included adapting and directing the multi-award-winning Oresteia (also West End), Mary Stuart, Uncle Vanya. With Duncan Macmillan he adapted and directed the smash-hit 1984, which has toured the world, played three seasons in the West End and won several major awards. His directing work includes Hamlet, Iliad, Odyssey, The Fever, Mr Burns (Almeida) and The Red Barn (National).

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Biographie:
Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution. Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Written in verse and based on historical sources, Schiller's play imagines the queens' lives - one in court, the other in prison - surrounded by staff and servants. Their imagined meeting, before Mary's execution, is passionate and enthralling.? Robert Icke's lean version condenses the action, cutting the cast to twelve, whilst retaining the play's symmetrical structure and tense atmosphere.? ? In an exciting twist, the first production had two actors learn the roles of both queens, and their roles were?decided at each performance by the toss of a coin. Adding a further duality to the play, this also allowed the first word of the evening to anticipate its ending:'Heads'....

Sommaire:
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) ranks as one of the greatest figures in European drama and literature. That Verdi based four of his operas on Schiller's plays is not surprising (I masnadieri, Giovanna d'Arco, Luisa Miller, Don Carlos). Both men were deeply preoccupied with the battle for political freedon, projecting the moral victory of the doomed individual over the power of the immutable State as potent historical drama. Schiller's nobility of theatrical concept perfectly suited the energy and majesty of Verdi's scores. Yet in the English-speaking world Schiller's works are comparatively little known to theatregoers. The dedication of the renowned Glasgow-based Citizens' Company and the inspired decision to present the plays alongside Verdi's operas at the Edinburgh International Festival have gone a long way to remedy this neglect. The fifth play included in this edition was the source fro the opera by Donizetti (Maria Stuarda). Also translated for the Citizens' Company by Robert David MacDonald, Schiller's 'Mary Stuart' is acknowldged masterpiece....