Macbeth (The Notes) is a sort of a theatre performance on the
creative process of directing a play. On an empty stage the director
hands his notes over to actors, technicians and the creative team just
after one of the public previews of his new staging of William
Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The show is not quite ready and the
director aims to give his actors all his good advice and tips so that
they are prepared and ready for the opening. Successively inspired
and exasperated, and often lost, the director comments on his notes.
Throughout this work session he will vigorously defend the avant-gardist
principles of his method (still somewhat confidential) known as the
method of distortion. For this, he praises the genius of his German
video designer Rainer, then showers the lead actor Jean-Marc, a
celebrity from TV plays and talk shows, either with obsequious flattery
or with violent blame. Macbeth (The Notes) is not only a sort
of a chaotic trip through the brain of a creative artist, but also a
gripping insight into the obsessional devotion that Shakespeare’s great
plays can inspire, and into the thousand and one ways of staging them.
Dan Jemmett
Translation Jean-Michel Déprats Adaptation Dan Jemmett et David Ayala Conception and staging Dan Jemmett Artistic collaboration Juliette Mouchonnat With David Ayala
Production Compagnie des Petites Heures Coréalisation C.I.C.T. - Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord