But it is sunlight that run murder and treason

The Sun has deserted Earth. There are more forests or fields of battle, or castles. Princes, soldiers, marauds and Devils are just silhouettes in the mist. The plateau of Gemini, seals, is black and bare for Macbeth, mounted by the British Declan Donnellan. A stripped and Nick Ormerod, spectacular design that favors, the empty space, the abyss in which each of the protagonists in the tragedy of Shakespeare can be drawn at any time. On the sides of the pillars in strips of wood - such as the remains of a derelict Elizabethan theatre - mask projectors and include walls, doors, corners. On the night, the men and women of black-clad run, indiscretions, are reluctant. But it is sunlight that run murder and treason. Neither incidental nor artifice: the swords and blood are invisible. Only are the actions and the thrills - hatred and fear danced under the skin. A skin as pale as the dead coming back to haunt the living.

Donnellan was Macbeth a grand funeral ballet where everything is based on the expressionist set of actors. Modern gesture, which borrows the mime, but contemporary dance and hip hop. The Kingdom of Scotland is same top underneath, animated of a barbaric instincts. The hero of Shakespeare tunes of warriors, they fight with their soul, as if it were an invisible enemy. The body closer and tangle for sacre or pain - black marble statues such scenes. The scene is both very fast and clear. The scenes are cycled through with rare evidence. The obscure dissolves in the dark: played in the darkness, on bottom of melancholic whoosh, the prophecies of the witches suddenly become legible. The harm done it came to pas de loup in the room in a night of blood.

Complicit public

Lord Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are toys of fate human, too human to not touch us. Actors wrenching (Will Keen and Anastasia Hille) took us at party on the scene. The public, they are a silent accomplice, a voluntary hostage. The world is such chaos. The battles successive battles, the crimes to the betrayal. If the fate, God or devil, promises you a Kingdom, why not the capture By all means. King Duncan is blind - both literally and figuratively in "reading" Donnellan - kill him is child's play. Lord and Lady Macbeth are wild, greedy and selfish, children until their crime arouses in them fear and remorse, transforms them into disillusioned adults. As delivered, raw, without decorum, their thoughts and their actions appear to us more scary and disturbing. In the end, while Malcolm, the son of the murdered King returns to power at the head of his army hidden in the "forest that goes on", according to the prophecy of the witches, the fucking couple is found at the scene. The ghost of Lady Macbeth has to lie to her husband, image in negative of Romeo and Juliet for the eternal rest.

It should include all the actors of the legendary troupe Cheek by Jowl. Through their inspired and physical game, the tragedy through the centuries at the speed of light to paste to the anxieties of our time. Their phrasing incandescent turns worms of Shakespeare in radical song in slam futuristic and hypnotic. Noise and fury record this Macbeth of exception résonneront long in our heads.