Wart Kamps
Sound design for a new play by Wart Kamps, trying to rehabilitate one of Shakespeare’s famous villains.
About
Thousands of actors from all over the world have already crawled into his deformed skin. One with a wine stain, the other with a wooden leg, but always Shakespeare’s story unfolds in exactly the same way: Richard the crippled psychopath kills his entire family to falsely ascend the throne of England and whining for a horse he is killed on the battlefield. To then go down in history as a deformed and murderous tyrant…
Thank you, Shakespeare, for a great example of character assassination. The noble King Richard the Third deserves reparation. And now.
Wart Kamps removes the shameful falsification of history from the books and finally shows the real Richard. Heavily scarred and hurt, he fights free from the five-hundred-year-old lie in which he is locked up. A performance about how history became fiction and fiction became history. About how reputations continue to haunt you… long after your death.
The Good Richard III is Wart Kamps’ first solo performance in which he enters Shakespeare’s universe in his own unique way, sometimes light-hearted, sometimes emotional, sometimes humorous, and then serious again.
Credits
Text: Wart Kamps
Direction: Bram Jansen
Choreography: Ryan Djojokarso
Scenography: Robin Vogel
Costume design: Esmee Thomassen
Light design: Ate Jan van Kampen
Sound design: Jorg Schellekens
Puppet design (“Sully the horse”): Tamar Stalenhoef
Technician: Julius Geleijnse
Première
21 October 2016, Toneelschuur (Haarlem, NL)