Elizabethan theater did not seek to locate facts and “
Shakespeare does not infringe the unity of place, he transcends it or ignores it
”, said Jorge Luis Borges.
In his staging of
King Lear
, Thomas Ostermeier occupies the space with a single setting in which the imagination takes shape: an arid, lunar moor that looks like it came out of Cinecittà studio 5, from the Fellini era.
A walkway like a vein extends the stage, splits the room in two: the actresses and actors will make it their podium many times.
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With Thomas Ostermeier, Le Roi Lear makes its brutal and experimental entry into the Comédie-Française repertoire and it is a lugubriously crazy fairy tale that will keep you glued to your armchair for two hours and forty-five.
The German director, who knows his Shakespeare – he has produced
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Richard III and Twelfth Night
– knows that Shakespeare is never sober, never.
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