Antonio y Cleopatra el desencuentro del mirar
SYNOPSIS
Antony and Cleopatra deals with the conflict between East and West, in an adaptation of the Shakespearean text that speaks of the mismatch of gaze, of the eyes that make us see others as foreigners.
Showing the differences between the cultures of East and West, through the immortal characters of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. It is a version of the love between the Roman and the Egyptian queen in a free way and with several surprises, metaphorical and physical embodiment of the meeting and conflicting collision of two cultures: East and West.
World premiere Jovellanos Theater, Gijón. December 16, 2001.
Ficha artística
- Cast:
Mark Antony- Ave Hernández
Cleopatra- Marli Santana
Character- Isaacc Fernández
Personaje- Jordi Toraño - Lighting Félix Garma
- Sound Bea Polo
- Dramaturgy and direction Paulo Atto
Crítica
The review says:
"The new group that today comes into being with this Shakespearean adaptation invites you to contemplate an amazing actress in her star appearance Marli Santana, the Brazilian Marli Santana in the role of Cleopatra.
The interpretation reaches moments of great aesthetic strength, for the headdress of the queen of the Nile, and the lighting, it is very interesting to show a setting stripped of scenery.
Ave makes a splendid, heartfelt and vivid characterization of a man who is not any of these things. And his partner reaches splendid degrees of self-absorption, living his mask with a mixture of sweetness and bitterness, and a much-needed expressiveness on our stages.
If the accent from beyond the Orinoco, misleads some parliaments, the brightness of his presence, his brocades, gold and purple, the magnanimity of his theatrical death have emotionally made this theater. Challenge of a great start."
Francisco Díaz-Faes
La Nueva España 16/12/2001
