Director: Iveta Jurčová
Translation: Jozef Kot and Zora Jesenská
Dramaturgy and song texts: Michal Ditte
Set: Iveta Jurčová and Michal Ditte
Music: Martin Čorej
Cast: Henrietta Rab, Jana Lieskovská, Slávka Daubnerová, Peter Kawiak, Zoltán Godar
Premiere 28 January 2007
The performance lasts 1 hour 10 minutes.
The Pôtoň Theatre is a small group that aims to discover new theatre in Levice. Over the past three years it has created six productions, as well as two years of a creative writing workshop, Fabula rasa. The theatre’s most recent production is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Iva Jurčová and Michal Ditte. In the intimate space of the Dve slová centre, a trio of actresses – Henrietta Rab, Jana Lieskovská and Slávka Daubnerová – develops variations on the great Elizabethan’s gory tragedy. From the start, they reveal their rules of the game, which they follow consistently throughout. They play all the important twists of the plot, and create all the tension of the play’s model, conveying the horrors of manipulation. As they do it, however, they preserve a subtle distance. The playfulness is increased by the natural way in which they play with artistic symbols, as well as music. Jana Lieskovská’s saxophone, Slávka Daubnerová’s keyboards, Henrietta Rab’s guitar and the vocals of all of them together are a bonus that is rich in scale for such a small production. In the Pôtoň Theatre, they have given Shakespeare a good shake, but have deprived it of none of its rare smells and tastes. Indeed, their playfulness has multiplied them. They create joy for themselves, and definitely also for the audience.
Oleg Dlouhý, SME