Presentation
When the supernatural enters a being which does not have enough love to receive it, it turns into evil.
This is the lesson: ambition is limitless, while real possibilities never are; in crossing them, one falls.
Simone Weil
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, performed in Sardinian and, in the pure Elizabethan tradition, by an all-male cast. The idea originated during Serra’s photographic coverage of the carnivals in Sardinia’s Barbagia region. The gloomy sounds of cowbells and ancient instruments, the animal skins, the horns, the cork. The power of the gestures and of the voice, the kinship to Dionysius and, at the same time, the incredible formal precision of the dances and chants. The sullen masks, and the blood, the red wine, the forces of nature tamed by man. But most of all the dark winter. A surprising number of analogies between the Shakespearian masterpiece and the variety of masks found in Sardinia. The Sardinian language does not limit its fruition, but instead turns into song that which in Italian would be at risk of degrading into literature. An empty stage space, crossed by the bodies of the actors who draw locations and evoke presences. Stones, dirt, iron, blood, warrior stances, residues of ancient civilizations from the Nuraghe of Sardinia. Matter which doesn’t convey meaning, but primordial forces which act upon those who receive them.
2017 UBU AWARD | Performance of the Year
2017 ANCT AWARD | National Theater Critic Association
58th INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL MESS:
– Grand Prix “Golden Laurel Wreath Award”, for best director Alessandro Serra for the performance MACBETTU
– Oslobodenje – The Golden Mask, for the performance MACBETTU
– The “Luka Pavlovic” Theater Critics’ Award, for the performance MACBETTU
2019 LE MASCHERE DEL TEATRO AWARD:
– Best performance
– Best scenographer to Alessandro Serra
BALTIC THEATRE FESTIVAL Sait Petersburg
Best performance (Artistic Committee)
Credits
From William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
By | Alessandro Serra
With | Fulvio Accogli, Andrea Bartolomeo, Alessandro Burzotta, Mirko Iurlaro, Giovanni Carroni, Maurizio Giordo, Stefano Mereu, Felice Montervino
Sardinian translation and linguistic consultant | Giovanni Carroni
Stage movement collaboration | Chiara Michelini
Direction, scenes, lights, costumes | Alessandro Serra
Music | Pietre Sonore by Pinuccio Sciola
Composition of Pietre Sonore | Marcellino Garau
Production | Teatropersona, Sardegna Teatro
With the support of | Fondazione Pinuccio Sciola, Cedac Circuito Regionale Sardegna
Video
Photo Gallery
Press
CRITICAL STAGES | Macbettu: Immersing in the “Hollow Crown” | Penelope Chatzidimitriou
DIARI DE GIRONA | Un Shakespeare primitiu i ancestral | Alba Carmona
SAGE JOURNALS | Play review: Macbettu | Pierre Kapitaniak
SHAKESPEAREANTALES | Macbettu | Paola Teresa Grassi
LE TEMPS | Une sorcellerie sarde fait le bonheur de La Bâtie | Alexandre Demidoff
TAMPERE THEATRE FESTIVAL | Macbettu: the marriage of Shakespeare and Sardinia
INFERNO MAGAZINE | «MACBETTU», UN MACBETH FROTTE A L’ÂPRETE SARDE | Pierre Salles
PUTSCH | Printemps des Comédiens: le bruit et la fureur de Macbettu | Romain Rouge
ESTADAO | Macbettu’ restaura a conspiraçao de Shakespeare na virilidade da traiçao | Leandro Nunes
RUMOR(S)CENA | Il Macbettu di serra: Universale e fortemente intriso di Sardegna | Ivan Ferigo
CONTROSCENA | Se lo spettro di Banquo frantuma sotto i piedi il pane «carasau» | Enrico Fiore
REPUBBLICA.IT | Shakespeare parla sardo | Giulio Baffi
IL MANIFESTO | Sbatti Shakespeare in Barbagia | Gianfranco Capitta
LA REPUBBLICA | Macbeth è sardo | Anna Benedettini
GLI STATI GENERALI | IL MACBETTU BARBARICINO A COLPI DI COLTELLO | Andrea Porcheddu
MILANOTEATRI | Macbettu zoomorfico | Alessandra Cutillo
PANEACQUA CULTURE | Inverness di Barbagia: il Macbettu di Alessandro Serra | Zazie
LA NUOVA SARDEGNA | Un Macbettu visionario e apocalittico | Walter Porcedda
ATEATRO | Macbettu ha mortu su sonnu | Fernando Marchiori
ALIBI ON LINE | MACBETTU: al teatro dell’Arte Shakespeare parla sardo | Saul Stulli
LA REPUBBLICA MILANO| Il Macbeth sardo elegante e misterioso | Sara Chiappori
MINIMA&MORALIA | MACBETTU: una tragedia arcaica e barbaricina | Graziano Graziani
HYSTRIO | La voce nera e arcaica della Sardegna nelle parole potenti del Macbeth | Mario Bianchi
ENRICO PAU | Questo è MACBETTU | Enrico Pau
PROFONDO VIAGGIO & ALCHEMICA MISTURA | Macbettu, un profondo noir sonoro | Gaia Giulizia
SUCCEDE OGGI |Ancestrale Macbettu | Mario Di Calo
LA REPUBBLICA ROMA | festival teatri di vetro; macbettu | Valentina De Simone
RECENSITO | TENEBRA IN SARDO SI TRADUCE CON “MACBETTU” | Tommaso Chimenti