GLOB(E) AL SHAKESPEARE

6, 7, 8 giugno 2017
Teatro Bellini

Elizabethan stage gives the idea of an encompassing and warm area: the circular ground plan, with the interpreters in the middle of the performance and the audience all around. This is a concept of community-led theatre that came out from the greatest playwright of the 17th Century, during the years he worked in London. In the same years in Italy there was the development of the idea of theatre as frontal stage. This Italian idea of theatre was completely opposite to the Elizabethan one: the audience lived the play as a social event rather than a community experience. The project Glob(e)al Shakespeare aims to make Bard’s work relive in a typical Italian theatre premise. The starting point is the idea of dynamic stage proposed by the Teatro Bellini Art direction in the past years. Bard’s work spiced up the Londoner prolific artistic season together with other great contemporary artists.
The central plateau will be stripped down and the audience will be outside the scene, in order to mark the occasion. In three midsummer nights, six Shakespeare’s plays rewrites – entrusted to six directors – will create in Naples the London Globe Theatre vibe; just because the entire world is a stage and Shakespeare his universal author!