Machiavelli and Me

30 minutes, 2019

Featuring

Felix Beauchamp, Brefny Caribou-Curtin, Tatiana Deans, Dylan Evans, Jordin Hall, Erik Helle, Alice Lundy, Lesley Robertson, Chris Whidden

A theatre director presents a theatrical version of Machiavelli’s The Prince, a philosophical text on power. The director instructs his actors on the background of the story, the countries involved, and the issues. The actors perform in front of dynamic backgrounds that materialize their fears, lies, wishes, contradictions and more. Two autocratic leaders march towards war over a contested region that possesses a natural resource: a magical hot spring that brings sensations of calm euphoria and sexual arousal. Includes improvisation, and text by Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Hitler, Trump and more.