“Maria Stuarda” by Davide Livermore: femininity and power in a game of roles |

Davide Livermore, acclaimed theater and opera director, staged this extraordinary reinterpretation of Shiller’s Mary Stuart revisited as a contemporary today’s drama, with today’s language and the use of theater in our times.“The wonderful thing about the original work dated 1800, says Livermore, is an extraordinary investigation into women within power and the power itself. Mary Stuart, Catholic Queen of Scots, and the Protestant Elizabeth of England create an incredible example of two women managing to be themselves while taking on different modalities even if they are not strictly feminine”
The Queens
Queen Elizabeth becomes masculinized, progressively losing her characteristics as a woman just to win the challenge with the rival. Through Elizabeth, it is once again the patriarchy that reconfirms itself. The crown of England is at stake and politics, religion, power, passions, both public and private, all mixed in this violent historical picture set in an abstract space that becomes a court, prison, park hosting a challenge for two extraordinary actresses Laura Marinoni and Elisabetta Pozzi.Amazing: the actresses exchange roles every evening.
It will be a feather thrown by an angel to determine who will take on whose role, in a theatrical game, which in the prologue of the show indicates which of the two actresses will be the queen destined to reign and which will be the one destined to perish.
The cast
Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Linda Gennari, Olivia Manescalchi, Sax Nicosia , while Gaia Aprea, Giua, armed with an electric guitar and made up like David Bowie, the medieval storyteller, a singing narrator who will never abandon us, always on stage or at the edge of the proscenium to perform the dark and contemporary soundtrack The Queens are dressed by Dolce e Gabbana, the costumes were created by Anna Missaglia
The almost three hours of show pass quickly thanks to a very fluid staging, a high but modern language, a plot dated centuries ago but particularly current and therefore engaging. Livermore, a genius as Opera Director, aims to validate the rapprochement between opera and prose.
It is no coincidence that Schiller’s drama inspired Gaetano Donizetti who, in 1835, with the help of the librettist Giuseppe Bardari, made it into an opera.A surprising, unexpecetd gran finale: all cast singing and dancing the Eurythmics hit “Sweet Dreams are made made of this…Who am I to disagree..
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