RICHARD III

 

 

Author: William Shakespeare

Title de la obra: Ricardo III

Subtitle: RIII

Theatre company: Arden Producciones

Director: Chema Cardeña

Cast:

                        _Richard: Juan Carlos Gares

                        _Reina Elizabeth: Amparo Vaya

                        _Buckingham: Carol Linuesa

                        _Ratcliff: Vicente Pastor

                        _Lady Anne: Esther Lopez

                        _Clarence/Richmond: Ismael Carretero

                        _Hastings: Chema Cardeña

                        _Reina Margaret: Laura Useleti

                        _Regidor en escena: Alfonso Tadeo

 

Artistic and technical staff:

                        _Text adaptation: Chema Cardeña

                        _Set design: Del Busto & Monterde

                        _Lighting: Ximo Rojo

                        _Clothes design: Pascual Peris

                        _Acustic space: Gilles Martin/ Ximo Rojo

                        _ Off Voice: Antonio Martinez & Maria Poquet

                        _Make up: Inma Fuentes

                        _Picture: Maque Falgas

                        _Video: Cabeza Liquida S.L.

                        _Graphic design: Asaltinbankis

                        _Technical coordination: Ximo Rojo/ Pere Morant

                        _Regidura: Pila Mohedano

                        _Production designer: Juan Carlos Gares

                        _Executive production: Elba Torres

                        _Production assistant: Carlos Galiana

_Distribution: David Campillos

_Administration: Mer Badia

_Direction assistant: Maria Poquet

_Playwright and direction: Chema Cardeña

 

Place and day of representation: Sunday, 23^rd October 2005, in L’Altre Espai

 

Dramatis personae

 

_Richar III: He is the main character. He is deformed, he has a deffect in the left arm, he can’t move it and a big hunched back.He is one of the king’s brother, and he wants the crown, so he have to kill everybody who is going to inherit the crown until he gets the crown. He is a ambitious character, a bad character,  we can observe it since the beginning. He shows no mercy in all the play, he doesn’t mind to kill a boy, a young or and old person, but he never do it, he always order to kill.

_Ratcliff: He is the Richard’s arm to kill everybody who he needs to kill. He is the murder of everybody, he makes everything what Richard says. He has a lot of freeze blood. He’s ambitious and bad too. At the end he is killed by Richard, in the battleground.

_Clarence: He’is the Richard’s brother. He is sent to the prision by his elder brother because the oracle said that he would kill the son of the king. He is betrayed by his brother and killed by Ratcliff because Richard told him to do it.

Buckingham: He is the Richard’s cousin. Richard get his help, lying him and promising him that he would give some lands. He shows loyalty to Richard and support him but when he has made his job, he wants what he was promised. So, at the end Richard orders to kill Buckingham.

Richmond. He is the oponent of Richard in the war. He is french. He kill Richard in the battle.

_Queen Elitzabeth: He is the queen, the woman of the Richard’s brother. Richard and Elitzabeth don’t like each other, they hate each other because Richard is the killer of her husband and sons.

 

Space

 The play  is placed in England, in many places, in the castle, in the prision, in a wood.

The space in this play is an empty space. The stage is empty. There’s no setting. There’s juast a nude scenray. There is no reference in the setting to the place where they are. The succession of the scenes is made by a dark light.

 

Lights

Lights are very important in this play because the lights makethe aundience know where the characters are. There is a different light for each scenary, so, by means of the light you can know where they are, because theres no reference in atrezzo or setting that told us where they are.

 This play is a very dark play. The lights are very low.  The light goes above the characters when they are in stage. The most important thing about lights in this play is that the lights are used to show the audience where the scene take place.

 

Clothes

The clothes in this play are historic clothes, because the play was written in the 15^th century. The clothes are elegant because the class of the characters is a high class. The play is rich in dresses,  cape, weaves, etc.

 

Atrezzo

 As atrezzo, in this play appear a cross, a throne with a carpet, a bathtube transparent. An important thig in this play is that the atrezzo would have to be as they were in that age but, they are made with a modern design.

 

Audience atmosphere

 It happened nothing strange during the representation. Being not a comedy the audience don’t laugh in any moment. The only moment when the aundience react was when the actor who plays the role of Clarence take off his clothes and remain naked, I don’t know why.

 

 

 

Personal opinion

I consider that this is a very interesting play, because the play was write in the 15^th century and the plays in that age were very different than the contemporary plays. So I consider that its interesting how the text is adapted and the performance is made.

I think that the director has get adapt the text and the play to the present, Although there are moment when the play is a little bit boring.

I like very much the main character, the actor that plays the role of Richard. I think he is a good actor, and he has a very clear, efficient voice and a perfect diction.

However I think that the play would be better if it had a good setting.