Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in 1599, referring in part to historical facts and partly to the translation by Sir Thomas North of the "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" Plutarch. The work compresses the three years between the victory of Munda in 45 BC Brutus' suicide in 42 AD to make them last less than six days. This compression of events causes the entire narration is one unceasing conflict, both personally and politically.
A conflict that runs through the new version of the most famous historic Shakespearean drama, entrusted by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto - National Theatre to Spanish Àlex Rigola, and finds in Michael Rion, appreciated film actor, theater and television, the ideal interpreter for the role of the nobleman Marco Antonio.

Director of the Biennale Teatro di Venezia, Rigola made his first Italian director back at work that made him discover internationally. An epic text, intense and exciting, which revolves around the exercise of power, in this version played by a woman, Maria Grazia Mandruzzato, in the role of Caesar.
They shall collect the many expressions of "women in power" that today, in politics as in the economy, managing the levers of power with the same inflexible determination of their men counterparts, if not more. It shows that, beyond gender issues, all of humanity is by nature subjugated by the fascination that exerts dominance of one over the other. And who embodies the power has easy game in conditioning alienated humanity, immobile, firm on their positions, almost resigned, reluctant to get involved to change the state of things.

Life hanging by a thread, in a state of insecurity, continuous contradiction, pervasive and latent violence of this human condition begins the road that Rigola has chosen to walk to guide the work of the 12 actors on stage. As you can handle the violence that divides men? How do you ask someone, even if only for fiction, to kill a fellow? What are the conditions from which to organize a revolution?

Author:   William Shakespeare
Translation: Sergio Perosa
Adapted and directed by:   Alex Rigola
With: Michael Rion
and: Maria Grazia Madruzzato, Stefano Scandaletti, Michele Maccagno, Silvia Costa, Margaret Mannino, Eleonora Panizzo, Peter Quadrino, Riccardo Gamba, Raquel Gualtero, Andrea Fagarazzi
Stage space: Max Glaenzel
Sound space:   Nao Albet
Lighting:   Carlos Marquerie
Costumes: Silvia Delagneau
Assistant director:   Lorenzo Marangoni