Clytemnestra

Actress Rosanna Morrone in her solo Clytemnestra. Camera Obscura

Adapted and directed by Jorge Luis Morejon.

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Superbly performed by actress Rosanna Morrone, Clytemnestra was a solo performance adapted and directed by Jorge Luis Morejon for the Festival de Monologos produced by Havanafama Co., where Ms. Morrone received standing ovations. For its quality and power, Clytemnestra was also selected to be performed at the "Teatro a una Voz: Monologues and More" production of Havanafama. Commissioned by Armando Alfano, Clytemnestra was last performed in Italian at Soya & Pomodoro Restaurant's performance space for an all Italian audience in Miami, Florida, in 2006. Awarded with the audience's bravos, it was last performed the 12 of April, 2008, at Teatro Estudio Havana Fama, as part of the VII Festival Latinoamericano del Monologo, Miami, Florida.

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Critique: Theatre In One Voice Of Four Voices in Camera Obscura of Miami (translated excerpt)

Carlos Pittella TeatroMundial.com, Miami

"The spectacle “Teatro a una voz” had a variety of styles and forms which made it entertaining, but most of all attractive. There were presented four monologues with dignity and within the frame the space tries to offer. The first one was “Clytemnestra”, a segment of the Greek tragedy “Electra”, by Sophocles, interpreted by the Italian Rossana Morrone. The scene is the entrance of Clytemnestra, the widow of Agamemnon, who comes to confront Electra, her daughter. The knot of the monologue relies on the uncertainty of the mother due the torturous and horrific dream caused by the murder of her own husband. Electra manifests that it must be a very special sacrifice, and her answer is what fills up the monologue.

The actress' work is magnificent, and I clarify, it was in Italian. Yes, magnificent, giving a demonstration of what can be done with the body on stage, deserving of admiration. No doubt, it is noticeable the directorial work to which Morrone put herself through, because Jorge Luis Morejón, an accomplished modern dancer, influenced tremendously the aesthetic development of the spectacle through the actress whom definitely exhibited the totality of the montage. Her body expression is the main element that accompanies what we call a good voice, a blessing given to a “prima donna” as well as a dramatic actress, hence, to a person with the talent to command the sounds and know that with them she will communicate with force the smallest details, modulations and tones. That bundle of aesthetic manifestations, in this case, was called Rosanna Morrone. And a peculiar detail, the divisions in the textual units, those marking the differences in intention are signaled with a transition, and it is here (work and idea of Morejón, I suppose) that it was coupled by the use of a veil, which indicated and enforced the inner expression directed at the expectator. In summary, Rossana Morrone showed dignity and efficacy in her work, a pride of her director because according to my own reading of what I saw , it is indeed what Sophocles wanted to manifest in his "Electra, and if the after world exists, the great Greek man should have felt happy with this presentation of his play."

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