Antonio Latella directs Riccardo III, a historical drama that concludes the Shakespearean tetralogy dedicated to the reign of Henry VI of England. On stage, Vinicio Marchioni and a brilliant cast of ten actors are ready to enchant the audience with the power of words that the Bard has given us and left as his legacy.

In this reinterpretation, Latella goes beyond the image of Richard as a “monster”, deformed in body and therefore in heart. Today, evil can no longer hide behind a hunchback or a cripple; it resides in beauty, not in disharmony: it is life, it is nature, it is seduction. It is words that reveal its power, enchant and corrupt, like the serpent in Eden. And the Garden of Eden, in this production, is a symbol of absolute and deceptive beauty, made up of dangerous relationships: a place to be defended, but also from which we have already been expelled.
Federico Bellini's translation allows for a rhythmic score that plays with registers, sometimes touching on the tones of a Wildean comedy. Alongside the original structure, a new character takes shape, the Guardian: enigmatic and dual, apparently a servant of evil but in reality at the service of the beauty of the place, willing to do anything to ensure the survival of the Garden of Eden.
Thanks to an impressive cast, capable of giving each character a strong artistic imprint and guided by the centrality of the word, Riccardo III is transformed into a ritual of seduction and ruin, a power game that undermines certainties and sinks into the ambiguous beauty of evil.