Troy 1/3 (Trója, 1998)

Přidal: Přemek |

Červen 29, 2012

Andrew Rissik. Produkce Jeremy Mortimer. Režie Paul Scofield.

Osoby a obsazení: Hermes (Paul Scofield), Priam (Julian Glover), Paris (Michael Sheen), Hector (Michael Maloney), Helena (Geraldine Somerville), Achilles (Toby Stephens), Andromache (Emma Fielding), Nikanor (Geoffrey Whitehead). Dále účinkují James Hayes, James Laurenson, Eleanor Bron, Ian Hogg, Deborah Findlay, David Harewood, Oliver Cotton, Lindsay Duncan a Saeed Jaffrey.

Nastudovalo BBC Radio 3 v roce 1998. Více zde.

Pozn.: Trilogie navazuje na rozhlasovou hru King Priam (Král Priamos) z roku 1987.

Obsah: 1. King Priam and His Sons – 2. The Death of Achilles – 3. Helen at Ephesus.

Pozn.: When Troy was first transmitted it received much praise. The Independent’s critic Robert Hanks summed up its approach to its subject as follows: „If Troy has a theme, it is accepting what life throws at you, the grace that is left when ambition and possessions and everything else you thought made life enjoyable have been stripped away“. He praised the play’s „boldly conceived, always searching approach to the story and its infinite meanings“ and the strength of the casting, though he had qualms about the score and how the language shifted between the archaic and the modern. Colleague Sue Gaisford had no such reservations stating „Jeremy Mortimer’s production of Andrew Rissik’s trilogy is probably the greatest radio drama [anyone] could ever hear“. She praises the language as „spare, poetic, beautiful“, noting the use sometimes of iambic pentameter and extended imagery. Ken Garner of The Express on Sunday noted that „most of the acting was intimate, understated, with long monologues. Only in the conflict between Achilles (Toby Stephens) and Hektor (Michael Maloney) did language and delivery match the violent action.“ In contrast to Hanks, he saw the score as a positive element „It still made sense stripped of verbal passion. Nick Russell-Pavier and David Chilton’s martial music supplied the tension bled out of the script.“ In summation, „This was a Trojan War for our time, a tale of intimate, everyday human weakness; they sought ‚the life of quietness’, while knowing their desire was destroying it.“