Posted on 04/07/2023 9:01:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Director Holly Teti explores “heterotopia” in an outdoor staging of the Scottish play
Audience members lounged on picnic blankets or folding chairs as the action unfolded against the University Chapel, framed by falling flower petals, twisting tree branches and a slow, golden sunset.
“Double, double, toil and trouble…” the University’s student-run theatre organization Shakespeare on the Lawn mounted a powerful production of “Macbeth” in Pavilion Garden I this weekend, bringing one of the Bard’s greatest tragedies to Grounds for a three-afternoon run. Audience members lounged on picnic blankets or folding chairs as the action unfolded against the University Chapel, framed by falling flower petals, twisting tree branches and a slow, golden sunset.
Director and second-year College student Holly Teti called the production “a play about how characters behave in different spaces.”
Teti’s “Macbeth” engaged with space and place in an exploration of “heterotopia” — a concept Teti first encountered in an art history lecture on ancient Egyptian tombs and religious spaces. In the “Macbeth” program, Teti described heterotopias as “spaces that invite or even force us to behave in a specific way.”
Characters engaged with a variety of such spaces in the “Macbeth.” Lady Macbeth rages in her painting studio while maintaining order in her dining room. Spirits reign in the forest, where military generals sought witches to tell their fortunes. Murders bloody both bedrooms and battlefields.
“[We worked to] enhance the production by inserting more heterotopias and by blurring the heterotopias that exist in the text, like the line between the spiritual world that the witches exist in and the human world,” Teti said.
These blurred lines extended to the division between the world onstage and off — with no backstage area or wings, actors prepared for their entrances behind the audience in plain sight, immersing theatergoers in the world
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“[We worked to] enhance the production by inserting more heterotopias and by blurring the heterotopias that exist in the text, like the line between the spiritual world that the witches exist in and the human world,”
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Don’t say “MacBeth”!
Classic
Don’t know if high school still cover Shakespeare in the classroom. When I was a student (1968-1971)every year we covered at least one of his plays. Freshman year - Romeo and Juliet, also read West Side Story. Sophomore year - Julius Caesar and The Odessey. Junior year - Hamlet, Senior year -MacBeth.
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