Tim Robbins set to “dance” the fantasies of Shakespeare – Meridian

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The actor and director Tim Robbins, along with the American company “The Actor’s Gang” began to “dance” the fantasies of Shakespeare with his version of “The Dream of a Summer Night, “which opened the representations of the International Classical Theatre Festival of Almagro (central Spain).

The installation featured a staging in which the movement and dynamism prevailed on other scenic elements, making the actors in the main base of the set.

The sets were made only by the combination of the movement of the thirteen performers, light and small items of props that served to take the viewer between the different stories that coexist in the work of Shakespeare.

With this approach, the actors of “The Actor’s Gang” not only defended with remarkable skill and a considerable dose of humor physically different who played roles, but also embodied the forest where he spent the action.

To fill this almost naked scenery, the actors put on stage a kind of interpretive dance that had the support of live music Mikala Schmitz the cellist and percussionist David Robbins.

This version of Robbins remains practically intact the original text of Shakespeare, but provides a much choral work in interpretation, which manifested itself in the mythical characters like Puck , who appears in the assembly interpreted commonly by several actors.

After nearly three hours of installation, the audience that packed the stalls of space Miguel Narros dismissed the actors and the director with a standing ovation.

In this way the passage of Tim Robbins by the International Classical Theatre Festival, which will make three more performances until next Monday its version of “Dream of a Summer Night” started . EFE