Report
Feb 24, 2009, 2.30 pm
-Reading of Macbeth’s Scenes v-vi-vii, Act I. Sylvia Toone working on the source play in order to help the students in adapting Shakespeare’s play more confidently, with a greater attention to the 3 selected scenes of Act 1.
- Act 1, three witches, TV news-Acting out Pasquale AND Giusy’s production for Act 1 (potentially the very beginning of the performance on stage –to be enlarged
- Casting new witches: Renata, Nunzia Scala, Eleonora Cipriano [to change again]
- Act 1—TV set as a protagonist, close up on the theatre screen, when it raises, a regular size TV set goes on looping the same news-casting , but now it’s background. TV as a medium of desire: power, fashion, celebrity, success: THE GOLDEN ROUND
- Song by Lucariello (proposed by Raffaele) could be played during Duncan’s murder
- THINGS TO BE DONE: 1)video-recording of the TV news scene (Raffaele); 2) choosing the song (Simona); 3) correcting the letter text.
Feb 25, 2009
8.30 am
CAMPUS THEATRE
-ACT 1, TV news—2 people: an interviewer (the journalist) and an interviewed, urban scenario
- 9.30 Davimus 1 on stage
-10.30 Davimus 1 performing their work on xenophobia
-11.30 Davimus 2 filming the news scene.
-We’ve rewritten and video-recorded the TV-news scene (Sylvia Toone as the anchor woman, Bill Papaleo as the interviewer)
- Act 2—we’ve worked on the script for the couple’s meeting. Three moments have been distinguished:
1. Lady Macbeth’s excitement after reading the letter.
2. The phone rings and Lady Macbeth is informed about Duncan’s coming for dinner.
3. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth meet up.
-Use of images TV looping from Joe Macbeth (Macbeth as a boss, Lady Macbeth/Lady Macduff relationship, the doll)
-Sleepwalking scene-playing a song like a ‘ninna nanna’-lullaby (it sounds like a filastrocca:The Thane of Fife had a wife). Giusy suggested to use a Neapolitan song about a brother who kills his brother to get their father’s power, richness.
- A mirror and a corner bar in Lady Macbeth’s sitting room. Lady Macbeth looks at her specular image while she says ‘I could be the Queen. Finally a’boss’The phone rings--disruption
venerdì 27 febbraio 2009
Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance
Lingua inglese 2 davimus
First meeting spring semester
There were several students, 15 may be waiting for Roberto Paci Dalò. Some overlappings with degree sessions. In any case our lesson has been moved to Tuesday 2.30 4.30 pm in room 6.
-two extra meetings will be
1.
on Tuesday Feb 22, and wed 23 with Sylvia Toone and Stuart Marlow
2.
On March 10 with Roberto Paci Dalò
They will help us working on Macbeth O’Boss which will be put on stage the last week of April and should last about 20 minutes
Starting from the division of roles Giusy and Pasquale-scriptwriters and quasidirectors-started working on the setting and dialogue for the first act and they come up with [they will send their summary]
- having a TV screen where two journalists announce the camorra fight where Macbeth and Banquo ‘won’ over opposite clans. Video where one of the journalists will be Alessandro Licata (dialogue to be created and shot)
- in between the two halves of the Curtain a singer sings a Neapolitan song—pub/cabaret kind (which one?—Simona Palmieri is going to sing
- The curtain rises and we have tables with people drinking and especially SMOKING and at one of the tables the three witches /bad girls meet Macbeth and Banquo coming back, tired and wounded from the camorra attack.
EVERYBODY:
FAIR IS FOUL AND FOUL IS FAIR
HOVER THROUGH THE Fog/smoke and FILTHY AIR
THE THREE WITCHES
The first:
Where are we three going to meet again Macbeth, O’Boss?
The second:
Here in the Scottish pub
The third
How do you know bitch?
The second
Haven’t you eyes? Here he is, the bloody man with his friend, boss Banquo
The first
Hallo friends!
They make predictions and equivocations…
In the meantime a tv screen again announces Duncan’s making Macbeth boss of Cawdor’s clan
….
While the First Act is a Pub/lic space
The second Act is the private mansion of the Macbeth’s, of the ambitious couple
The idea is replicating the Pompeian red of Scarface’s house, with red lights and panels suggesting glamorous painting, arms, gorgeous lamps and fashionable curtains
Lady Macbeth should remind something of the witches. She is wearing a black nightgown while, lying on the floor by a light candle [everyone should learn by heart one of the most famous among Shakespeare’s monologues:
Tomorrow and tomorrow/…
Out, out brief candle! …
Tale told by an idiot signifying nothing (V,v,16-28)]
She reads her husband’s letter
Cfr Pasquale’s writing
[She may be watching Scarlett Johansson wearing the Neapolitan dressmaker’s dress in GArrone’s Gomorra (look for those images in the movie)
Then there is the meeting of the couple
She is wearing a blood red elegant dress
She is bursting from desire…social, acquisitive ambitions
In order to be the first camorra couple she is ready to renounce maternity, to have an abortion (cfr the contemporary movie, Revolutionary Road)???
Lady Macbeth
I can’t wait
…We will move to Posillipo? We’ll have a larger house, we will buy everything, things people, politicians, markets, American Chinese, Indian A delirium of omnipotence, both private and public
…
Soundtrack
Drums
Pipes
Chimes (Renata)
The Third Act
Chain of murders
-Duncan
-Banquo
-Lady MAcduff and children
Crescendo of cruelty and horror
Behind a transparent curtain? Like a white curtain which progressively is stained with red?
-Macduff and what is a man?
The Fourth Act
The outcome is loneliness
-The cauldron (choreography of witches [Annamaria clarizia as a choreographer and Rosalia Paracuollo and others as dancers)
-Lady Macbeth alone-sleepwalking scene—again in her nightgown and in the end she lies again on the floor of the stage near a candle
-Macbeth comes and turns out the light
Monologue and fight
The performance closes with a choreography. Mara was brilliantly suggesting that it may be about a sterile Birnan wood where the people-trees come to life again, in a reborn , regenerated, hopeful dimension.
We said also many more thoings; you all are invited to modify, make suggestions and contribute, everybody.
Next week we would like to shoot the improvisation of the meeting of the bossy couple who will improvise , hopefully, by the help of Sylvia.
Also remember to memorize the monologue, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
We all want to say, on the contrary, that we work for today and tomorrow!?!
Lingua inglese 2 davimus
First meeting spring semester
There were several students, 15 may be waiting for Roberto Paci Dalò. Some overlappings with degree sessions. In any case our lesson has been moved to Tuesday 2.30 4.30 pm in room 6.
-two extra meetings will be
1.
on Tuesday Feb 22, and wed 23 with Sylvia Toone and Stuart Marlow
2.
On March 10 with Roberto Paci Dalò
They will help us working on Macbeth O’Boss which will be put on stage the last week of April and should last about 20 minutes
Starting from the division of roles Giusy and Pasquale-scriptwriters and quasidirectors-started working on the setting and dialogue for the first act and they come up with [they will send their summary]
- having a TV screen where two journalists announce the camorra fight where Macbeth and Banquo ‘won’ over opposite clans. Video where one of the journalists will be Alessandro Licata (dialogue to be created and shot)
- in between the two halves of the Curtain a singer sings a Neapolitan song—pub/cabaret kind (which one?—Simona Palmieri is going to sing
- The curtain rises and we have tables with people drinking and especially SMOKING and at one of the tables the three witches /bad girls meet Macbeth and Banquo coming back, tired and wounded from the camorra attack.
EVERYBODY:
FAIR IS FOUL AND FOUL IS FAIR
HOVER THROUGH THE Fog/smoke and FILTHY AIR
THE THREE WITCHES
The first:
Where are we three going to meet again Macbeth, O’Boss?
The second:
Here in the Scottish pub
The third
How do you know bitch?
The second
Haven’t you eyes? Here he is, the bloody man with his friend, boss Banquo
The first
Hallo friends!
They make predictions and equivocations…
In the meantime a tv screen again announces Duncan’s making Macbeth boss of Cawdor’s clan
….
While the First Act is a Pub/lic space
The second Act is the private mansion of the Macbeth’s, of the ambitious couple
The idea is replicating the Pompeian red of Scarface’s house, with red lights and panels suggesting glamorous painting, arms, gorgeous lamps and fashionable curtains
Lady Macbeth should remind something of the witches. She is wearing a black nightgown while, lying on the floor by a light candle [everyone should learn by heart one of the most famous among Shakespeare’s monologues:
Tomorrow and tomorrow/…
Out, out brief candle! …
Tale told by an idiot signifying nothing (V,v,16-28)]
She reads her husband’s letter
Cfr Pasquale’s writing
[She may be watching Scarlett Johansson wearing the Neapolitan dressmaker’s dress in GArrone’s Gomorra (look for those images in the movie)
Then there is the meeting of the couple
She is wearing a blood red elegant dress
She is bursting from desire…social, acquisitive ambitions
In order to be the first camorra couple she is ready to renounce maternity, to have an abortion (cfr the contemporary movie, Revolutionary Road)???
Lady Macbeth
I can’t wait
…We will move to Posillipo? We’ll have a larger house, we will buy everything, things people, politicians, markets, American Chinese, Indian A delirium of omnipotence, both private and public
…
Soundtrack
Drums
Pipes
Chimes (Renata)
The Third Act
Chain of murders
-Duncan
-Banquo
-Lady MAcduff and children
Crescendo of cruelty and horror
Behind a transparent curtain? Like a white curtain which progressively is stained with red?
-Macduff and what is a man?
The Fourth Act
The outcome is loneliness
-The cauldron (choreography of witches [Annamaria clarizia as a choreographer and Rosalia Paracuollo and others as dancers)
-Lady Macbeth alone-sleepwalking scene—again in her nightgown and in the end she lies again on the floor of the stage near a candle
-Macbeth comes and turns out the light
Monologue and fight
The performance closes with a choreography. Mara was brilliantly suggesting that it may be about a sterile Birnan wood where the people-trees come to life again, in a reborn , regenerated, hopeful dimension.
We said also many more thoings; you all are invited to modify, make suggestions and contribute, everybody.
Next week we would like to shoot the improvisation of the meeting of the bossy couple who will improvise , hopefully, by the help of Sylvia.
Also remember to memorize the monologue, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
We all want to say, on the contrary, that we work for today and tomorrow!?!
Report of January 26, 09, university theatre
Presentation/Discussion of our first draft-script, entitled ‘Macbeth o’boss
deadlines
Projection of Raffaele Morrone’s short video about Macbeth and Gomorra overlappings. This video could be the prologue of our work
Renata Savo and Pasquale Parisi play the music they’ve chosen as possible part of our performance’s soundtrack
Thinking about the set, the location –urban landscapes, Naples, New York, Mumbai—local/global location: fair is foul and foul is fair—in-betweenness: good/evil-vice/virtue
‘Napoli by 99 posse-we could play it while projecting the video. Projected at the very beginning of the performance, should include good and bad images (back to vice/virtue opposition)
Next meeting 11th February, Wednesday (to be confirmed)
CAST
‘Macbeth o’boss’
Ø Vincenzo Albano as Macbeth
Ø Elena Cuomo as Lady Macbeth
Ø Angela Diamante Lengua as the first witch
Ø Grazia Carbone as the second witch
Ø Gabriella De crescenzo as the third witch
Staff
Prof Antonella Piazza, prof Bill Papaleo-directors
Giusy-aiutoregista
Daniela di Matteo. Greta Viceré, Valeria Nuzzolo-costume and set designers
Pasquale Parisi, Laura Errico, Giusy—scripwriters
Annamaria Clarizia-choreographer
Rosalia Paracuollo-dancer
Simona Palmieri-singer
Raffaelle Marrone—video/projections editing
Renata Savo e Pasquale Parisi--soundtrac
.
Presentation/Discussion of our first draft-script, entitled ‘Macbeth o’boss
deadlines
Projection of Raffaele Morrone’s short video about Macbeth and Gomorra overlappings. This video could be the prologue of our work
Renata Savo and Pasquale Parisi play the music they’ve chosen as possible part of our performance’s soundtrack
Thinking about the set, the location –urban landscapes, Naples, New York, Mumbai—local/global location: fair is foul and foul is fair—in-betweenness: good/evil-vice/virtue
‘Napoli by 99 posse-we could play it while projecting the video. Projected at the very beginning of the performance, should include good and bad images (back to vice/virtue opposition)
Next meeting 11th February, Wednesday (to be confirmed)
CAST
‘Macbeth o’boss’
Ø Vincenzo Albano as Macbeth
Ø Elena Cuomo as Lady Macbeth
Ø Angela Diamante Lengua as the first witch
Ø Grazia Carbone as the second witch
Ø Gabriella De crescenzo as the third witch
Staff
Prof Antonella Piazza, prof Bill Papaleo-directors
Giusy-aiutoregista
Daniela di Matteo. Greta Viceré, Valeria Nuzzolo-costume and set designers
Pasquale Parisi, Laura Errico, Giusy—scripwriters
Annamaria Clarizia-choreographer
Rosalia Paracuollo-dancer
Simona Palmieri-singer
Raffaelle Marrone—video/projections editing
Renata Savo e Pasquale Parisi--soundtrac
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