The play is Richard
III of William Shakespeare. The play took place from the 14 of October to the 6
of November in the theatre L'Altre Espai of Valencia. The company, the
distribution, and the artistic and technical personnel we can find it in the
attached pamphlet.
DRAMATIS
PERSONAE:
Richard: He is the protagonist of the play. He is the Duke of
Gloucester. He is lame and handless of the left hand, he has a hump and as
himself defines in the play is badly-forming, an unfinished person. He is bad,
arrogant and he does not concern anything or anybody to him with so obtaining
the reign.
Elisabeth Queen: She is
married with Edward, the king of England and Richard's brother. Dressed in a red
dress that calls the attention of the audience. She is a woman who loves her
children and she would do everything to avoid the infelicity of her son.
Buckingham: He is the Richard's
cousin, the Duke of Buckingham. He is made ally of Richard to remove party when
Richard is king.
Ratcliff: As Richard says is his left hand, he does everything
what Richard orders to him. He assassin without mercy to the enemies of
Richard.
Lady Anne: She is a young widow because Richard kills his
husband to marry with her. She is a very sweet girl who is very in love with
her husband and sad by his loss.
Clarence: His name is George, he is the brother of King Edward
and of Richard, he is condemned to die because in the prophecy said that George
will kill the descendants of the King and all thought that he is because his
name begin for “G”. He is the Duke of Clarence. He is the nicer and the best
brother of all.
Richmond: He is the greater enemy of Richard since he wants to
marry with daughter of King and Richard also although she is his niece.
Hasting: He is the first minister of England and faithful to
king Edward and Elisabeth.
Margaret Queen: She is a very rancorous old woman. She is
widow and without son because Richard killed them to put to his family in the
throne. Prophetess and cursed to everybody who has done damage to her.
SPACE:
The play takes place
in England but they do not have a fixed scene, in the place where they are we
can imagine according to the atrezzo that it composes the scene or of the
light, for example when they mount the camping in the forest the light that is
reflected in the ground has forms of green leaves. As the pamphlet says: "is a empty space, indefinite, lived by
nine characters that it falls the weight of the action, the emotion and the
aroma of a last but still near time".
ATREZZO:
Atrezzo is made up of
several objects depending where are the characters. In the scene of the death
of Anne's husband there is a tomb, when they kill to Clarens, he was put in a
transparent bathtub. And is used also a chair with form of throne.
CLOTHES:
The characters dress
with clothes of epoch, adapted to their social class. Perhaps what more
emphasized was the long veil that hung of the women widows and perhaps the
colour of the clothes also was suitable with the personality of each character
for example Ratcliff and Richard went both of black and Clarens that was good
went of white or Anne went of a pink pie that the sensation of being gives
sweet and Margaret of dark dwelled black and like of death and pain
ILLUMINATION:
The illumination was
composed by spotlight with the lighting system in horizontal or vertical, was
three positions in horizontal and one vertical that illuminated the centre that
switch on when Richard spoke to a monologue. When the scene is in the forest
the lights reflect leaves in the ground and the same it happens when they are
in the tower of the castle.
Personal opinion:
The atmosphere in the
theatre was magnify since the silence prevailed during all the play. The adaptation
of the work was best and the actors really were put in their paper, we could
feel that they put a big effort to act as for example to do a the power of a
character transmitted by his voice. And finally, the play took a little to
confusion with the names and because as says the pamphlet "is a history
that they themselves read and construct".