by William Shakespeare
Macbeth: Mihai SMARANDACHE
Duncan: Adrian TITIENI
Lady Macbeth: Ioana MĂRCOIU
Macduff: Ioan BATINAȘ
Banquo: Eduard TRIFA
Fatal sister, Assassin, Gatekeeper: Sabrina IAȘCHEVICI
Fatal sister, Assassin, Messenger: Vlad BÎRZANU
Fatal sister, Assassin, Captain: Meda VICTOR
Adaptation and Direction: Silvia Costa
Set Design: Silvia Costa and Michele Taborelli
Costumes Design: Camille Assaf
Light design: Marco Giusti
Original Music: Nicola Ratti
Originally created at the Comédie-Française, Salle Richelieu, in 2024.
The set and costumes were produced in the workshops of the Comédie-Française.
A graduate in Visual Arts and Theatre from the IUAV University of Venice (2006), Silvia Costa joined the theatre company Societas Raffaello Sanzio, where she worked until 2020, participating in all of Romeo Castellucci’s creations.
Her personal artistic journey, rooted on a visual and poetic theatre nourished by deeply reflection on the image, began with Quello che di più grande l’uomo ha realizzato sulla terra, a finalist for the Premio Scenario in Italy and presented in France in 2013 at Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
In 2019 she made her opera directorial debut in Paris. She has collaborated with several theatres across France, Italy, Germany and Spain. Since 2020, she has been Associate Artist at the Comédie de Valence. In 2022, she was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
When you start to work on a Shakespeare’s piece you need to be conscious that you have in your hands a prism with many sides, and it can be turned and looked at from different perspectives. I choose to take as predominant the side of the irrational, with the possibilities to put in communication two worlds: the world of reality and the other world.
What interests me about this is that everyone can understand where the line between reality and a kind of fragile madness lies; without going so far as to kill, we social beings are sometimes overcome by irrational thoughts, usually associated with the pursuit of success and power, and what stops us from taking the plunge is sometimes very tenuous. Our subconscious makes us imagine actions that we know we are perfectly incapable of committing. Part of our unconscious escapes social rules; we all harbor a part of our raw, animal instinct. But we hold back: Macbeth, in his pursuit of power, does not hold back.
I enjoyed a lot to work with these troupe and everybody of them has embodied the characters with lot of care and precision, and still finding their own interpretation, making the character vibrating their way.
Silvia Costa
Opening date: September 27, 2025
Duration: 2h 10′
The show is available with French translation upon request.
If you are interested, please let us know at the box office or by email, at least two days before the performance date.
Please check the availability of translation before purchasing your tickets
Not recommended for children under 14 years old.
Accessible show for people with locomotor disabilities, upon request.
Photos by Victor Oancea
