Name of play : CLAN MACBETH
Name of the theater Group: Teatro delle Ombre, Roma, Italy.
Name of the play-writer: William Shakespeare.
Name of the director: Daniele Scattina.
Cast: Daniele Scattina (Macbeth),Marzia Tedeschi: (Lady Macbeth) Domenico Astone: (Joker)
Assistant director: Chiara Cottini
Duration of the play:60 minutes.
Summary:
The decision to put on stage Macbeth, recalled Clan Macbeth, and to reduce it into just three characters(Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the Joker)stems from our belief that there is an increasing need in the actor’s work to be focused in the synthesis without losing the atmosphere of the biggest epics . The three characters find a new space than the classical one, they are centralized but decentralized in a space that becomes a non-place and a no-time. This Joker”jester”,spooky and burlesque becomes the crucial link to access the facts and the various characters who revolve around the murdering couple.
Biographies of the three actors:
MARZIA TEDESCHI (Role : Lady Macbeth and artistic manager of the play)
is an Italian actress. She studied Theatre at La Sapienza university,Italy and Theatre and performing arts at Plymouth university, UK. She attended acting classes and schools in Rome, Milan and New York. She shaved her head for the role of Sallafa in the movie Al Khubz al Hafi ( Il pane nudo).For her performance,she was awarded as ‘Best Actress’ in San Francisco,Rotterdam and Milan.She moved to Berlin 2013, because she got an Italian role in a new German tv series. She played the role of Giovanna in the last movie of David Wnendt “Sonne und Beton”,the movie had its premiere at the Berlinale 2023. She was awarded for this movie at the Deutscherschauspielpreis.She is on Amazon Prime (UK,USA,Germany,Austria and Switzerland) with the movie”Tarantella- God forgives, mafia won’t”.She keeps playing in international theatre festivals the play Clan Macbeth.She was awarded for her role of Lady Macbeth at the Tangier international theatre festival,Morocco 2018.
DANIELE SCATTINA ( Director of the play and role :Macbeth)
is an Italian actor and director, his artistic training begins with the study of acting at the Fersen school in Rome and continues at the “Mulino di Flora” laboratory also in Rome directed by Perla Peragallo. In 1992 he began his first theatrical experiences working among others with Giorgio Albertazzi, Leo de Berardinis, Luca Ronconi and in London at the Peter Hall Company with Ben Kingsley. He attended also acting workshops with artists such as Carmelo Bene, Eugenio Allegri and Daniela Bausch.2001 he began also his career as director and artistic director of his own Company “Teatro delle Ombre” in Rome.Since 1996 he has directed several shows including “The Tempest”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, “Caligula” and “Macbeth” with which he has participated in various festivals around the world.
DOMENICO ASTONE (Role: Joker)
is an Italian actor, his artistic training begins at the Sistina theater acting school with Pietro Garinei in Rome and continues with acting workshop with the Amarican coach Michael Margotta. He made his debut in prime time television on Rai2 with Rick and Gian. In 1996 he began his first theatrical experiences, successfully interpreting various comic and brilliant roles. He began collaborating with Daniele Scattina in 1999, who taught him Shakespearean theater and began a long association with him, never abandoning, however, even as an author, comedy and vaudeville. In 2016 he began working in the paly Clan Macbeth performing in various festivals around the world. Domenico is also a painter.
ABOUT THE GROUP
The group Teatro delle Ombre was born thanks to Daniele Scattina at the beginning of 2000. Daniele Scattina is a director and an actor, based in Rome, Italy. He has directed several shows including “The Tempest”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Miss July”, “La neve era sporca”, “Hamlet”, “Questo silenzio atroce”, “Rock Caligula”, and “Clan Macbeth”.
2011 Daniele Scattina met the actress Marzia Tedeschi and they started the collaboration for the play “Clan Macbeth” to be presented in many international festivals around the world, with the purpose to play this show among different cultures and sharing with many international artists the passion and the love that we all have for theatre .
Marzia Tedeschi is also the artistic Manager of the show Clan Macbeth.
The actor Domenico Astone instead entered the group only 2022, when Clan Macbeth had a new revision, with new costumes and new scenes, having its premiere at the Aact World international theatre festival in Venice, Florida, USA 2022 and presented as Honorary Performance at the Sharm el Sheikh international theatre festival of youth, in Egypt 2022. The three actors collaborated together also for the show Rock Caligula 2014, but they work also separately in different productions.
