Munstrum Theatre's Iconoclastic "Makbeth": Unleash the Monsters
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In this iconoclastic "Makbeth," which skillfully blends terror and burlesque, the scenes of impressive formal beauty follow one another to the rhythm of an exciting soundtrack. JEAN-LOUIS FERNANDEZ
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Review Louis Arene, Lionel Lingelser and their acolytes have taken many liberties with Shakespeare's tragedy, mixing terror and burlesque and peppering the work, a dizzying exploration of madness and political fable, with ingenious touches of humor. ★★★★☆
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It's a "Macbeth" of red and black. Red, like the great spurts of hemoglobin that cover the characters and the stage. Black, like the abyss into which we are drawn by the Macbeth couple, a sort of two-headed monster, and Shakespeare's terrifying tragedy, reputed to be unwatchable and cursed, to the point that, for so long, out of superstition, no one dared call it anything other than the "Scottish play." A work with which Louis Arene and Lionel Lingelser, who also play the evil spouses, have taken many liberties without betraying or distorting it. The adaptation and dramaturgy are by Arene and Lucas Samain.
Here, the witches will appear only fleetingly. There will, however, be ghosts and a knight in armor, lasers and smoke, strange goop, tar and feathers. A "k" has crept into the original title. K for Kafka, champion of metamorphosis and the uncanny, an inspiring figure for the Munstrum Theatre. But also, and above all, this is the work, a dizzying exploration of madness and a political fable, by...
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