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Culture Documents
in situ: 2009
Twelfth Night
King Lear
The Winter’s Tale
Macbeth
Twelfth Night
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by William Shakespeare
The Performers
ORSINO, Duke of Illyria
John Shippey
The Play the name Cesario, she That’s the main plot, but
enters the service of Duke there’s a subplot, involving
Twelfth Night was written in Orsino and falls in love with an elaborate practical joke.
about 1601. It is one of him. The perpetrators are
Shakespeare’s best-loved Orsino, however, is in love Olivia’s drunken uncle, Sir
and most frequently with the Countess Olivia, Toby Belch and her
performed comedies. who is in mourning for the chambermaid, Maria. The
It has been interpreted in death of her brother, and victim is Malvolio, Olivia’s
many ways over the years. decides to use Cesario as pompous steward, who
Some productions have an intermediary. provokes them by objecting
stressed the romantic Olivia falls in love with this to their riotous behaviour.
elements, while others handsome messenger and Maria writes a letter which
have performed it as farce. so the love triangle is appears to be from Olivia,
More recently, many complete.
protesting love for Malvolio
productions have placed When Sebastian arrives
and asking him to come to
the emphasis on the play’s on the scene, confusion
her smiling, cross-gartered
inherent cruelty, while ensues.
Mistaking him for Viola, and wearing yellow
others have explored the stockings, in other words
Olivia asks him to marry
issues of gender, identity behaving like a lunatic.
her, and they are secretly
and sexuality that the play Malvolio finds the letter, is
betrothed.
raises. taken in by it, and carries
Finally, when the twins
appear in the presence of out these bizarre
The Plot both Olivia and the Duke, instructions. He is made a
Viola is shipwrecked on the there is more wonder and laughingstock for his pains
shores of Illyria. She loses awe at their similarity, at and locked up as a
contact with her twin which point Viola reveals madman.
brother, Sebastian, she is really a woman. When finally released and
believing him drowned. Olivia marries Sebastian told of the joke, he swears
Posing as a man under and Orsino marries Viola. revenge.
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Mirror Stage: According to the French psychoanalyst Jacques You don’t know what Love is
Lacan, the crucial experience of childhood, and indeed of (vocal)
life, is the first time a child sees his/her reflection in a mirror; Dinah Washington
he is captivated by his ‘specular image’, becoming for ever
alienated from his body, which from then on has less reality The Party’s over now
for him than his mirrored image. Noel Coward
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King Lear
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by William Shakespeare
The Performers
Maxine Fay
Boris Mayger
Andy Murfitt
Cyrus Pundole
Susan Quilliam
Silvano Squizzato
Natalia Varela
T Theatre and La
his year will see in
situ:’s third Theatre and
Landscape week, which
will take place in Dartmoor,
that magnificent wilderness of
tors, moors and megaliths.
Theatre and Landscape is a
week-long residency exploring
every aspect of environmental
theatre and taking inspiration
and stimulation from the
landscape. We go to beaches,
castles, churches, woods and
rivers – all sorts of
environments natural and
man-made – and respond to
them in different ways –
through acting, movement,
painting, singing, writing and
installation.
Each year, we invite an
artist-in-residence to work
with us. This year we have
invited singer and
internationally-renowned
voice-teacher Margaret
Pikes; and in 2008, we
Creative colla
enjoyed the company of
singer-songwriter Lawrence
George in Sheafhayne
Manor, in East Devon.
In 2007, visual artist and
teacher, Kristian Purcell
joined us for the week in Kristian Purcell, artist-in-resid
Llandudno, North Wales and
was commissioned to create When it was first suggested Project and ‘The Passer By’
a number of works based on that I ‘artistically document’ from The Cherry Orchard
his experience of the week. Project) had come from
Theatre and Landscape, I
Some of these works, plus memories of instances in the
had vaguely envisaged
other works inspired by in performance and this was a
situ: performances are sitting around drawing
people act, but from the of f – good grounding for a the
shown here. process of documenting
This is what he says about and the ‘off’ came with an
email giving me a passage of Theatre and Landscape.
creating art in those As a non-actor participating
circumstances: text to learn some weeks
totally in the week was an
before the trip to Llandudno amazing experience to be
“
Creative collaboration with – it was clear that the only part of, and it took some
in situ: involves immers- way to do this properly was weeks and months to absorb
ing yourself in the creative from within the experience. fully the experience and then
process – not just painting My other paintings based on to work through sketches and
but acting, vocalising, in situ:’s work (‘Lovborg’ gouaches to come up with
moving, singing, playing. from The Hedda Gabler the final images.
”
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andscape
The Audience
aborations
dence, Llandudno, 2007
In the Hall of Glain Orme
by William Shakespeare
The Performers
Macbeth
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by William Shakespeare
The Performers
Macbeth
Richard Spaul
Witch
Bella Stewart
directed by:
Bella Stewart
and Richard Spaul
The Play
Macbeth is
Shakespeare’s shortest
tragedy and is believed
to have been written The performance
sometime between 1603 lasts about 110
and 1606. minutes, with no
Shakespeare’s sources interval.
for the tragedy are the Smoking is not
accounts of Kings permitted anywhere
Macbeth and Duncan in in The Leper Chapel
Holinshed’s Chronicles or its grounds.
(1587), a history of Please switch off all
England, Scotland and mobile phones during
Ireland familiar to the performance.
Shakespeare and his We hope you enjoy
contemporaries. Macbeth
14 www.insitutheatre.co.uk Macbeth
The Plot Donalbain, flee the country where he joins Malcolm, who
and Macbeth becomes king. is planning an invasion.
Macbeth and Banquo are Concerned about the Lady Macbeth is now
generals in the army of witches’ prophesy to Banquo, mentally ill. She reenacts the
Duncan, King of Scotland. he has Banquo murdered, night of Duncan’s murder in
Returning from a battle in but Banquo’s son, Fleance, her sleep and then kills
which they have defeated the escapes. The Ghost of herself.
King’s enemies, they meet Banquo appears at Malcolm, Macduff and others
three witches, who prophesy Macbeth’s inaugural dinner loyal to the former king
that Macbeth shall become and Macbeth exposes his invade Scotland and find
Thane (meaning ‘Duke’) of guilt by his crazed behaviour themselves at Birnam Wood.
Cawdor and then King. To on seeing it. He decides to To camouflage their approach,
Banquo they prophesy that revisit the witches, who give Malcolm orders every soldier
his children shall be kings. him one warning and two to cut down a branch and
Unknown to Macbeth, the prophecies. They tell him to carry it in front of him. A
present Thane of Cawdor is beware Macduff (another servant reports to Macbeth
about to be executed for thane); they tell him that that a wood is moving
treason and his title none of woman born shall towards Dunsinane and thus
conferred on Macbeth. harm Macbeth; and they tell the first prophecy is fulfilled.
Macbeth reports all this to him that he shall never be Macduff is seeking Macbeth
his wife who encourages him defeated until Birnam Wood to gain revenge for the killing
to kill King Duncan. An comes to Dunsinane Castle of his wife and children. They
opportunity presents itself (Macbeth’s military meet and, on hearing the
when Duncan stays headquarters). second prophecy, Macduff
overnight at Macbeth’s Macbeth orders the sacking tells Macbeth that he was
castle. of Macduff’s castle and the ‘from his mother’s womb
Macbeth kills the King, killing of his wife and untimely ripped’. Macduff kills
whose two terrified young children, but Macduff himself Macbeth and Malcolm
sons, Malcolm and has escaped to England, becomes king.
Psychoanalyst inspired us
In creating this production, we have been schizoid’ position, to reparation and
influenced by the work of the recognition of a complete and complex
psychoanalyst Melanie Klein – its other.
powerful picture of the psychic roots of Klein’s writing isn’t as lucid as Freud’ s,
violence, and the extraordinary imagery it but its vocabulary and images are
conjures. arresting and potent. Her collected
Klein worked in the first half of the writings, ‘Envy and Gratitude’ and ‘Love,
Twentieth Century, primarily in Britain, Guilt and Reparation’ describe the clinical
with young children. Approaching setting of her work – a playroom with toys
children’s play as an expression of that are often scattered, smashed, thrown,
unconscious desires, fears and urges, she torn apart and hidden away.
formulated some still-controversial and Using in situ:’s fine collection of ravaged
not very pretty ideas about the infantile and broken dolls (many of them
psyche. These involved the splitting of part-objects), we have sought to evoke the
internal and external objects into ‘good’ nightmarish, unconscious fantasy that
and ‘bad’. The body of the mother, underpins the violence of the play.
particularly the breast, becomes the focus Macbeth’s external and internal worlds are
of a vengeful, violent drama. blurred, and his interlocutors are an
Psychic development moves through a unstable conglomeration of fantasy
chaotic, shattered and envious ‘paranoid- partner, analyst and self. Bella Stewart
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PERFORMANCES
TWELFTH NIGHT
June 16 - 27
The Leper Chapel,
Cambridge
KING LEAR
July 2 - 11
Wandlebury Country Park,
Cambridge