Theater
La Tempestad
- Adaptación y puesta en escena de Peter Brook y Marie-Hélène Estienne
- Country: Chili - France
- Premiere: 2022
- Target audience: + 14 years
- Length: 80 minutes
This applauded version of Shakespeare's classic was the last work in the life of the famous outspoken director. English Peter Brook, premiered in France and staged in parallel in Chile with an outstanding local cast headed by Pablo Schwarz and Diana Sanz.
Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne's version of The Tempest, William Shakespeare's last play, strips away some scenes and secondary characters, leaving it only to its essence: the focus lies on yearning for freedom, as it is the key concept longed for by its protagonists. As it is always the case with Shakespeare, the word comes to our ears as a suggestion, from where it keeps echoing.
On the island where they are confined, Caliban, the slave, is longing for freedom. Ariel, the spirit, also seeks freedom, but a in a different sense. Also, Duke Prospero must free himself from the self-inflicted task of revenge, which prevents him from being free. The duke, immersed in his books in search of the hidden, had kept himself in his dreams, only to be betrayed by his brother. Upon his arrival as an exile on the island, one would think that he finally would find freedom, since he possesses the art of magic and can transform the elements at will.
This last play written by Shakespeare is undoubtedly his own literary testament. It was also Peter Brook's last staging during his lifetime before he passed away last July 2022, the day of his death coinciding with the last performance at Teatro Nacional Chileno.
This is the story of Tempest Project, a production that premiered in France with the actors of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and was applauded by European critics, standing out for its mix of simplicity and complexity.
The version, performed in Chile, stars Pablo Schwarz as Prospero and Diana Sanz as Ariel, and is directed from France by the legendary creative duo Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne.
This, is thanks to the co-production between Fundación Teatro a Mil and Teatro Nacional Chileno, with Amalá Saint-Pierre as collaborator and assistant to the staging.
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Credits:
Written by:
William Shakespeare
Adaptation and staging (France)
Peter Brook y Marie-Hélène Estienne
Collaboration with staging and direction assistance (Chile):
Amalá Saint-Pierre
Cast:
Diana Sanz, Pablo Schwarz, Alex Quevedo, Noelia Coñuenao, Rafael Contreras y Aldo Marambio
Production and costume design:
Valentina San Juan
Assistance in production and costume design:
Omar Parraguez
Lighting design (France):
Philippe Vialatte
Spanish translation:
Benjamín Galemiri y Amalá Saint-Pierre
Co-production for the Chilean version:
Fundación Teatro a Mil y Teatro Nacional Chileno
Biographies:
Peter Brook
Born in London in 1925, he is considered one of the most influential contemporary theater directors of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, he has developed plays in genres such as theater, opera, film and essay. His first staging of The Tempest premiered in 1968 and was brought back in 1990 with Tempest Project, a new version of the Shakespearean classic. In the 1970s, Peter Brook moved to France and founded the Centre International de Créations Théâtrales. He is also a co-founder of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. He has won two Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards, and the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts.
Marie-Hélène Estienne
Marie-Hélène, a French dramaturge and screenwriter, joined the Centre International de Créations Théâtrales in 1977 and went on to work directly with Peter Brook, thus initiating a collaboration that would mark the trajectory of the duo, considered to be a reference for the European theater. She is the author of Tierno Bokar and Once and Twelve and has adapted and directed plays by various exponents of the world of theatre such as William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Samuel Beckett, among others. She is also well remembered for her adaptation of the Hindu myth The Mahabharata.
William Shakespeare
This English dramaturge and poet (1564-1616) is an undisputed classic of universal literature and theater; a master at portraying feelings of his characters, such as pain, betrayal, love and jealousy. His plays -Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among others- are still in full force, being read and staged all over the world.
Peter Brook's Awards:
Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, 2019
Arts Category
Lawrence Oliver Award,1994
For his contribution to British theater
Circle Theatre Award, 1988
London Critics for Best Director in The Mahabharata
Tony Award, 1970
Best Director for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tony Award, 1966
Best Dramatic Director for Marat/Sade
Previous dates:
April – May 2024
Teatro Finis Terrae - Providencia
May – June 2023
Teatro Finis Terrae – Providencia
January 2023
Centro Cultural Eduardo Cancino – Pedro Aguirre Cerda
January 2023
Teatro Finis Terrae - Providencia
January 2023
Teatro Municipal de Antofagasta
June – July 2022
Teatro Nacional Chileno - Santiago
July 2022
Teatro Diego Rivera – Puerto Montt
January 2022
Premier at Teatro a Mil International Festival – Teatro Nacional Chileno
