III. RICHARD 16
Gesher Theatre, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, Izrael
Director: Itay Tiran
Hebrew with Hungarian and English subtitles
3 hours with 1 breaks.
"Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Tolstoy wrote. "Richard III" is the story of such a family. The royal offspring, raised in a family strife, a rejected, sickly, and fierce child turns into a malignant tumor that devours everything around him. This family drama becomes a national tragedy in the play where the personal is inseparable from the political. Centuries before Netflix, Shakespeare created the first serial killer. A magnificent freak, an eloquent and moving clown rapist who takes us on a thrilling journey of destruction. The wounded villain, who steps on corpses all the way to the throne, is a warning to all, a reflection of the terrible danger where the destruction of the family is followed by the destruction of the state.
Actors:
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III: Evgenia Dodina
King Edward IV, brother to Richard / Duchess of York, mother of Richard, Edward, and Clarence: Doron Tavori
George, Duke of Clarence, brother to Edward and Richard /Lord Stanley: Israel (Sasha) Demidov
Duke of Buckingham: Gilad Kletter
Queen Elizabeth, Edward’s wife: Michal Weinberg
Lady Anne, widow of Edward, son to the late King Henry VI; later wife to Richard: Yuval Scharf
Lord Hastings / Lord Mayor of London: Alexander Senderovich
Sir William Catesby: Paulo E. Moura
Sir Robert Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower in London: Eli Menashe
Earl Rivers, brother to Queen Elizabeth / Prince Edward: Noam Tal
Lord Grey, son of Queen Elizabeth by her former marriage /Duke of York (the son): Shir Sayag
Murderer: Shlomi Bertonov
The Bishop of Ely: Maxim Rosenberg
Creators:
Set design: Eran Atzmon
Costume design: Judith Aharon
Light design: Gleb Filshtinsky
Movement: Renana Raz
Sound: Michael Vaisburd
Musical production: Amit Poznansky
Video: Victor Sorokin
Assistant director: Yoav Dagan
