Last Sunday I went to see Othello Arthur Cyril (director) New Phoenix Theatre in Osimo.
Although a few kilometers from here I've never seen this theater and it was a very welcome surprise. I will return to speak of the unknown wonders of this region that I am discovering little by little in this period and that fills me with enthusiasm.
Returning to Shakespeare's tragedy, I must preface that I have a sincere admiration for Shakespeare, a kind of love that persists in time for his intelligence, poetry, unique and inimitable ability to translate feelings into words and feelings that the majority of we mortals are inexplicable.
His works are, in my opinion, so perfect that anyone is going to interpret them in a theater should first place to worry about transposing on the boards of the stage exactly the author's intentions.
I discovered, however, that the modern tendency is rather to "interpret" in a modern way, "modernize" and make them so appealing to everyone.
So it was for Cyril that led Othello to the stage with a backdrop of walls made of self-propelled and small wrought-iron beds with small wheels. The costumes, for some reason, they were in colonial style and the dialogue had been altered to include such words as "fuck" and scurrilous gestures.
Desdemona, the incarnation of pure and exalted, has become a comic-opera character, a kind of Paris Hilton and social life devoted to Othello, which was to be the incarnation of the passion that blinds to kill and kill until he was an epileptic and a bit weak 'tattered.
The only character who has remained almost unchanged was Iago, played by the director himself, who has shown a remarkable ability to interpret.
I wonder, but that's changing needs Shakespeare? Why not invent something new instead? And why do you think that Shakespeare should be altered to be digested by the people? Are we all become the only idiot dedicated to Big Brother? And if so, would not be better, then, do something to raise the level cultural rather than wreak havoc in the artistic perfection as he did this film?
The theater was full and people applauded and I felt a kind of caryatid trying to stop progress ...
What do you think?
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