Wednesday 28 July 2010

Elaborating on Maria Juseppa

Elaborating on my comment above, and making of Maria Juseppa a collage of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, I say that Maria Juseppa who, like Lear, being in dementia, screaming, "Howl, howl, howl," uttering some unintelligible, to quote Hamlet, "words, words, words", becomes the embodiment of all humanity in demonstrating that human life is, to paraphrase Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech, a tale told by an idiot where man, on his way to dusty death, is like a poor player who struts and frets his hour on the stage, then is heard no more. Indelible remains that 1973 Spanish-language staging by Nuria Espert of "Le Casa del Bernarda Alba" at the Aldwych-London, as part of an international theatre festival engineered by that disabled man of theatre whose photograph, with him posing is Peter Ustinov, I very well remember but whose name memory is not serving

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