Habitación Macbeth

* Programme subject to change

In this staging, the three witches —confused visions, embodiments of duality and bearers of double-edged prophecies— represent Shakespeare’s tragedy for the enjoyment, delight and catharsis of the audience. The actor’s body becomes a vessel pierced by forces, stripped of historical selfhood, ready to embody presences and impulses where the theatrical becomes an almost paranormal phenomenon. This production seeks to denounce the criminal inclinations of power while simultaneously reactivating the sacred, poetic and transformative capacities of the body on stage.

Habitación Macbeth proposes a break with the traditional function of theatre as a mere mirror of reality, throwing a stone that shatters that reflection to reveal its hidden layers. The play explores how our historical identity is marked by a violent and inescapable will to power. It proposes a performance as a phenomenon of manifestation, where Shakespeare becomes the means to strike the mirror of reality. An intense experience that challenges traditional forms of theatre and turns the stage into an act of invocation, accompanied by original music by Claudio Peña.

 

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“What happens in Habitación Macbeth resembles a séance. A body that escapes normalcy, that cannot contain itself because it has been seized by a multitude of specters who resurrect it and compel it to act”.

Alejandra Varela. Diario Clarín, Suplemento

“Habitación Macbeth contains within itself the entirety of the Universe, down to the smallest atomic particle. Shakespeare’s play is completely transcended to become a paranormal trance deep within our own ghosts.”

Frida Jazmín Vigliecca. Revista con Fervor

“Habitación Macbeth is an attempt to throw, alongside Shakespeare, a stone at the mirror also on the level of production forms, disrupting the performance and exalting its metaphor: the actor as a vessel, a zone of incarnations, the structure of a presence stripped of historical selfhood and ready to manifest, to come to light, to represent itself theatrically. Performance as a paranormal phenomenon, as the theatrical reach of that structural identity where our presence dwells.”

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