Macbeth combines all the ingredients of a modern thriller. "As he becomes a tyrant, Macbeth also becomes an expiatory victim of the society which he crushes. His need, revealed by his destiny is much deeper, more archetypal than the pull of ambition or a thirst for power, than the logic of murder, the dizzying effects of damnation. It is the tragic necessity of taking responsibility, and taking it alone, for the murderous processes that order the march of history, that is based on murder: the necessity of being given a role that one could define as the polarisation of chaos."
Sylvain Maurice's version of the play, is pared down to an aesthetic shadow, and sees in Macbeth, a modern-day hero. Negative but modern in his philospohical boldness. Guilty but young. Never have the usurper of the Scottish throne and his wife ever been so young, thus renewing the image of a play that tradition obstinately fixes in maturity. The key to this production is simplicity, the criminal couple, like the witches, are no longer such stock characters, they are portrayed as being like us all, but on the side of evil.
Distribution
stage direction Sylvain Maurice
Première sorcière, Lady Macduff : Désirée Olmi
Deuxième sorcière, Fléance, un messager : Catherine Tolosa
Troisième sorcière, dame de compagnie,le jeune Siward : Stéphanie Farison
Duncan, premier meurtrier, Siward : Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Malcolm : Lyes Salem
le capitaine ensanglanté, Seyton, le portier,le vieil homme : Michel Quidu
Donalbain, un noble, le médecin : Jérôme Ragon
Lenox, deuxième meurtrier, Hécate : Pierre-Yves Desmonceaux
Rosse : Boris Napès
Banquo, Cathness : Marc Berman
Macbeth : Pierre Louis-Calixte
Macduff : Eric Challier
Lady Macbeth : Nadine Berland
le fils Macduff (en alternance) : Paul-Emmanuel Gautreau ou Alexandre Pottier
French translation : Jean-Michel Déprats
artistic collaboration : Denis Loubaton
stage design : Renaud de Fontainieu
lighting : Philippe Lacombe
costumes : Elizabeth Neumuller
sound : Jean de Almeida
Production
Production : L'Ultime & Co, Le
Carré-Théâtre des Ursulines de
Château-Gontier,
L'Hippodrome-scène nationale de
Douai, L'apostrophe-scène
nationale de Cergy-Pontoise, le
Théâtre Jean-Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine,
le SAN de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
le Palais des Arts de Vannes, le
Théâtre de Chelles, le Palais des
Arts de Nogent-sur-Marne et le
Théâtre de Gennevilliers-centre dramatique national.
Avec le soutien de : la DRAC
Ile-de-France, du Festival d'Avignon
Avec la participation artistique du : Jeune Théâtre national
Avec le concours de : l'Adami
et le soutien de : la Spedidam