Shakespeares the storm: a magic without magic in the state theater!
Shakespeares the storm: a magic without magic in the state theater!
On the stage of the State Theater in Lower Austria, the audience awaits an charged staging of Shakespeare's "The Sturm". Anne Mullener's creative direction shows a stage design that impresses with its skill, but also creates confusion. According to Kleine Zeitung , the plot of hectic shouting is accompanied, while the characters and hand puppets appear from a hatch. This staging does not succeed in exploring deeper emotional layers - the quiet nuances are missing.
a chaotic acting
The striking visual design brings up the feeling of a washing machine in which the figures are thrown around. The dazzling costumes of the ensemble in particular contribute to the confusion. The main actor Michael Scherff, in the role of Prospero, radiates perplexity, which also falls back to the staging. The confusion is reinforced by double occupations such as Tobias Artner, who plays both Ferdinand and Stephano. Affected viewers could think that the ambitions of the director do not quite match the reality of the piece that soon aroused, as historical reviews already raised.
As part of his global heritage, Shakespeare's “The Storm” generated worldwide response, even in the French theater landscape, as Charlotte Louisa Clark emphasizes in her dissertation. In her work, which indicates the history of the play in France and the Francophone world, she underlines the relevance of Caliban as a symbolic character, which is reinterpreted in different versions. These modern adaptations reflect important social upheavals and offer new perspectives that go beyond the first representations. Through this interpretation, Caliban becomes a voice of the oppressed - one aspect that is neglected in the current production from St. Pölten, which according to Birmingham University in turn questions the relevance of the play in today's context.| Details | |
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| Ort | St. Pölten, Österreich |
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