Re-invented theatre.

Hi there everyone.

The two pieces of re-invented theatre I found where as follows.

The first piece was very a contemporary dance company called Tmesis (Tuh-meh-sis). Coincidentally their first piece and the piece that I researched is also called Tmesis. The piece is based on Aristophanes speech from Plato's symposium about the Origin of love. The essay can be found here http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sym.htm. From this link you can see snippets from the piece. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hkE8E8oKfw. I hope you can see as I did the progression of love and the struggles that the human being faces when experiencing love of any kind. The piece was previously re-worked by Linda Kerr Scott from Complicite.

The other piece that I found was Eugene Ionesco's Macbett. Ionesco's recreated Macbeth infusing elements of degeneration, malice, desire and fear to make an extremely comic yet tragic farce.
A very interesting interview with Ionesco can be watched here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGOFBLHiVXU. I think his views about theatre and the world in which he lives are especially interesting. He was one of the initial creators of the theatre of the absurd. More information can be found on Macbett here. http://www.rsc.org.uk/whatson/4674.aspx

Hope you are all well :)
xxx