Based on William Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra and Furious Love: Liz Taylor, Richard Burton – The Love Story of the Century.
Our version of Antonio e Cleopatra, plays with the humor inherent in the love protagonism of two not-so-young lovers, flavored with pop music. The comedy is sometimes mischievous and at other times conflicted between the protagonists, reminiscent of the immortalized film actors of the last century, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, as a sort of homage.
The adaption by the artistic director and playwright Andrea de Manincor allows for a blend of comic and tragic elements within the limitless spatial freedom of the work.
On stage, two characters with a need for protagonism are in a scene divided into two spaces: a dressing room and a set, which leads to a continuous play of self-assertion, gratification, and recognition -exchanges requested from the partner through Shakespeare’s text and the lived relationship between the two.
The movements between dressing room and set gradually become more intertwined, making it clear that, as the director of Cleopatra, Joseph Mankiewicz, once said: Burton and Taylor did not Simply act out Antonio and Cleopatra; the were them.
On stage:
Director: Solimano Pontarollo
Script adaptation: Andrea de Manincor
Actors: Sabrina Modenini, CLEOPATRA/LIZ TAYLOR;
Solimano Pontarollo, ANTONIO/RICHARD BURTON
Choreography: Varhynia Ziliotto
Lighting Design: Francesco Bertolini
Set Design: Simone Tessari
Duration: 50 minutes
Language: Italian
Venue: Theatre space or itinerant venue
Performance: In costume
