Cries & Whispers
A Dramatic Installation based on Shakespeare's
Macbeth & The Merchant of Venice
by Nino Vichan
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Dystopia represents the decay of civilization.
Art represents the essence of the human soul.
Is our artistic culture facing the dawn of dystopia?
Art represents the essence of the human soul.
Is our artistic culture facing the dawn of dystopia?
The reactionary forces in our society that tear at the fabric of our
collective culture, and ravage the treasures of our precious artistic creations
are washing over us with a force that is formidable. They speak with voices of
financial imperatives and moral outrage, but they will never eradicate the
power of artistic creation that defines us as creatures that possess a soul.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth and her husband the Thane of Cawdor began walking the stage of the Globe Theater in London more than 400 years ago. In the twilight of our civilization they walk among us still. They are almost invisible now, mere "Cries and Whispers", but to those who know them, they are as much flesh and blood as any man or woman.
ACT I SCENE I. A desert
place.
Thunder
and lightning. Enter three Witches
Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head
Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice walked the 'vicoli di Venezia' with Antonio and
Portia almost a decade before Macbeth plunged his knife into King Duncan's body
as he slept. To this day he still yearns to collect his ‘pound of flesh’.
ACT I SCENE III
Venice. A public place.
Venice. A public place.
Antonio & Shylock sign the contract
ACT II SCENE I
Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Bassanio chooses a casket to win the
hand of Portia
ACT II SCENE VI
Before Shylock’s house.
Jessica runs away with Lorenzo and steals Shylock’s fortune
ACT III SCENE I
Antonio’s ships are destroyed on the narrow seas of the Goodwins
ACT III SCENE I
Antonio’s fortune is lost at sea when his fleet of ships sinks
ACT IV SCENE I
Venice. A court of justice.
Allow me to detain you for a brief moment and offer you my humble efforts
to create a space where you may accompany some of Shakespeare's companions, as
they play out the fate to which they are destined on the stage of the mind.
For a brief moment, allow yourself to exist in a world where art has more
power over the human mind then all of the forces of greed and materialism that
are encroaching on our souls and forging our modern cultural dystopia.
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