1 resultado para Nationalism
em Worcester Research and Publications - Worcester Research and Publications - UK
Resumo:
Like its title, Pyramus and Thisbe 4 You, Alexandru Dabijas production at the Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, was a tongue-in-cheek invitation to the audience that at once aimed to tease past and recent Romanian endeavours and to tease out the stage potential a Shakespeare play holds today. My examination of the production re-constructs the local cultural contexts the production plays with and against, referring to the Romanian ways of making Shakespeare this production enters into dialogue with. Take 1, an all-female version casting the mature stars of the Odeon, I read against both Elizabethan all-male stage practice and Andrei Serbans all-female Lear at the Bulandra (2008). Take 2, an old device (V.1.50): a teacher-student devising session at the Academy of Theatre and Cinema, I read against critics more strange than true (V.1.2) parlance on theories of perception and reception and against hi-tech Shakespeare dominating the Romanian stages in the first decade of the third millennium. Take 3, local political banter on ethnic discrimination, I read as satire keen and critical (V.1.54) on both communist censorship and the recent rise of nationalism in Romania. Take 4, a cold reading-cum-improvisation performed by the technical crew this productions mechanicals I read as palpable-gross play (V.1.376) on both acting and spectating practices. What I argue in this article is that Dabijas production goes beyond its local context and mores, and proposes a re-assessment of Shakespeares cultural currency in (European) Romania and Europe at large by exposing current tyrannies in Shakespeare studies: from translation and adaptation, through directing and acting, to viewing and reviewing.
