Parrabbola Theatre, York<\/p>\n
Olivia Negrean<\/p>\n
Feast (a play in one cooking)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director: Olivia Negrean<\/p>\n Translation: Jelena Ljumovi\u0107<\/p>\n Cast:<\/p>\n Emilia \u2013 Beatrice Ragea<\/p>\n Lady Macbeth –\u00a0 Marie Rabe<\/p>\n Lady Anne \u2013 Charlotte Coletta<\/p>\n Imogen \u2013 Hannah Lucas Isabella \u2013 Sara Barison<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays with a staggering 1,191 individual characters: 147 women and 1,044 men. This is one story about 6 of those women, from different parts of the world, and even different times. Little did Shakespeare know that, centuries later, his characters will come together, off the page once more. But this time just for dinner. Although it is never just dinner, is it?<\/p>\n An international cast bring six of Shakespeare\u2019s most memorable women back off the page<\/em><\/p>\n and onto the stage.\u00a0This time, outside their well-known stories and circumstances.<\/em><\/p>\n FEAST<\/em>\u00a0premiered at the International Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk, Poland in 2017, and has since been performed at: Following the performances in Gdansk,\u00a0FEAST<\/em>\u00a0has been translated into Polish and performed in Rzeszow Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre. <\/p>\n \u201cIf Shakespeare’s characters are so very famously human, then what better fun than writing some of his women off the page and into a kitchen to watch them inter-act, and to wonder how they get on? Without their controlling men and with a feast to keep them busy they turn out to be endearing, original and fascinating. Unsurprisingly, these women turn out to be peace-makers. I so enjoyed watching Olivia Negrean’s ideas unfurl, and I highly recommend this company play.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Janet Suzman, MBE<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Six of Shakespeare\u2019s leading women have come together. Emilia brings the wine, Ophelia helps with a salad, Lady Macbeth works on the soup, Imogen tends to the barbecue, while Lady Anne and Isabella have both brought dessert. Each woman has her own story to tell, and her own view on the stories of her peers.\u200b<\/p>\n As the meal comes together, it becomes clear these iconic characters have been brought together for a reason: to decide whether to change their stories and thereby change the future of womankind, or stay within the confines of what\u2019s been written?<\/p>\n This otherworldly opportunity provides a fantastic avenue for discussion and encourages the audience to think again about Shakespeare\u2019s women. Lovingly crafted by Romanian-born writer Olivia Negrean with a mixture of Shakespeare\u2019s own text, production reviews, and observations about the various plays, FEAST is a poetic and heart-warming production.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74002,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[186],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-74294","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-between-the-churches","event_type-teatar","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/74294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74294"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=74294"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradteatar.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=74294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOphelia \u2013 Olivia Negrean<\/p>\n
\nVoila! European Theatre Festival
\nRomanian Cultural Institute, London
\nYork International Shakespeare Festival
\nVerona Shakespeare Festival
\nCraiova Shakespeare Festival<\/p>\n
\nThe play has also been translated into Romanian for the Craiova Shakespeare Festival.<\/p>\n