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VOL.CL No 2.034
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Amsterdam, Tuesday, October, 14,2013
Wubbe tries shakespeare
Review romeo & Juliet by the Scapino Ballet
The Scapino ballet is for years already known as
one of the most famous ballet companies from
the Netherlands. In 1995 this company existed
50 years. They decided to celebrate this with a
huge production of Shakespeare’s Romeo &
Juliet. It was made by the choreograph Ed
Wubbe. This production was one of the biggest
audience successes up until that point for them.
Approximately 17 years later (in 2012) Ed
Wubbe decides to make a remake of his great
success production of 1995. This time the goal
was to really make a performance from
nowadays.
There are some performance are so well known
that even people who don’t know anything of
ballet have heard of them. The performance of
Romeo & Juliet is one of these performances. It
was because of this reason that this performance
was standing on my ‘to see before I die’ list. So when this performance
was shown in Apeldoorn and I had to write a Ckv report, I didn’t had any
excuses anymore.
The original version of Romeo & Juliet is a play
dating back to approximately to 1595, written by
Shakespeare. While Shakespeare is British, is the
play set in Italy. The play itself is about two lovers
who can’t be together because of their feuding
families. After its release, Romeo & Juliet has been
adapted numerous times for stage, film, music and
opera. The reason why this story is so famous and
so many of adaption’s of it are made is probably
the fact that the story contains of lot universal and
timeless aspects. Wherever you live or wherever
you live, the character and the feelings they go
through are relatable for everybody. And this is
exactly the point that Ed Wubbe wanted to get
across. That’s why he heavenly used other
cultures for his inspiration. This is clearly visible
in the music . for his music he asked the help of
the legendary love orchestra, which exist out
playrs and instruments from all over the word. So in this piece you hear a
djémbe solo being followed up by a nice piano piece. Ed Wubbe did this
to show the