Macbett, farce tragique d'Eugène Ionesco

In a “tragi-ubuesque” verbal surge, Eugène Ionesco questions our impulses, frustrations and vanities. Set against the backdrop of a terrible war, Macbett and Banco, friends and doubles, cross paths in a forest with strange prophetic witches. From then on, distrust and calculations poisoned their relationship and the loyal generals they were turned into deceitful and Machiavellian spirits. Ambition will precipitate their downfall.

Macbett de Ionesco is not the reassuring caricature of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays but a critical operation on the myth, an attempt to weld Elizabethan theater with that of our time. Ionesco follows fairly faithfully the Shakespearean narrative and tirelessly seeks new theatrical paths.

The Macbett/Macbeth experience is universal: an external success cannot prevent an internal defeat. But Ionesco marks its territory: it tells us the extraordinary destinies of people who are interchangeable and without greatness. In modern times, there are no more heroes and everything goes too fast. Macbett is an anti-hero and his tragedy is a farce.

Entertainment for some, nightmare for others; from tragedy to vaudeville to fairy tale; universal and iconoclastic; the opportunity for everyone to a healthy reflection on the mechanics of power.

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