Lorenzaccio
Event
Teatro do Bolhão is creating an ambitious triptych: after Vida do Grande D. Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança, by António José da Silva (O Judeu), and before Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, the centre is made with Lorenzaccio, by Alfred de Musset (1834), directed by Rogério de Carvalho. From accounts of the history of Florence in the 16th century involving the overthrow of the tyrant duchy of Alessandro de Médeci, murdered by his cousin Lorenzo, disparagingly called "Lorenzaccio" because he frustrates the ideals of change, Musset creates both personal drama around this figure, haunted by a Hamletian restlessness, and a criticism of a society's decline. A key piece of the French romantic drama, considered hard to perform or staged in amputated versions, has always been a challenge for the company, which now makes its premiere in Portugal, drawing inspiration from its formal freedom to corrupt its dramatic forms and genres. A performance about a human community powerless against the crumbling of power and its capacity for dissimulation, Lorenzaccio aspires to be also a portrait of our time.
