A bold new staging
Power
as performance.
Coming in January 2027, director Dimitris Komninos presents a bold new staging of William Shakespeare's Richard III.
Five actors inhabit the play's entire universe, moving fluidly between kings and murderers, queens and ghosts, victims and conspirators. Identity is never fixed but continuously reshaped before the audience's eyes, exposing power itself as an act of performance.
The production draws on the visual memory of history without attempting archaeological reconstruction. Costumes and scenography evoke rather than reproduce the medieval world, creating a theatrical language that is both timeless and immediate. Shakespeare's text, the expressive power of the actors' bodies and the ensemble's collective imagination become the production's principal scenographic forces.
Here, Richard III is neither a museum piece nor a contemporary political allegory. Instead, it is approached as a living dramatic organism, one that lays bare the seductive mechanics of power, the corrosive force of ambition and the slow disintegration of human bonds. By stripping away historical distance without sacrificing the play's richness, Komninos invites audiences to encounter Shakespeare not as inherited culture, but as urgent theatre.
