From July 25^th to August 6^th, it will be time for “Green Shakespeare: trees, storms, flowers and the moon.”

As the centrepiece of a festival focused on environmental respect, this Shakespearean performance, curated by Paolo Valerio, places “green” values at its core. It maintains its original itinerant essence in the park, at sunset, and explores Shakespeare’s plays inspired by nature.

The beauty of the passages in which the great playwright wrote about flowers, forests, stormy winds, and night skies is astonishing. The actors interpret them in the most enchanting views of Miramare, where the audience is accompanied by other characters who introduce the concept of nature in the Elizabethan world. For Shakespeare, Nature was not only the “benign mother” that we seek to preserve and protect today; it was characterised by a powerful duality, also being a “stepmother” capable of killing with its unpredictability. The colour green embodies both a symbol of love and rebirth and, following the morality play tradition, the menacing shadow of the devil, disease, and obsession. According to this duality, the famous lines from Othello about jealousy, the “green-eyed monster,” resonate in the park, the thousand Shakespearean tempests are evoked by the waves of the sea, and the park’s trees become the gentle forests of “As You Like It” and the enchanted woods of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” And then there’s the poetry of the moon and the timeless charm of flowers, cultivated by the Archduke in the greenhouses, studied in the library, as attested by the exhibition “Ars Botanica,” and evoked in the delicate passages from “The Winter’s Tale,” in the final words spoken by Ophelia, or in Desdemona’s prophetic “Willow Song.”

For more information and how to book go to the website of the Rossetti Stabile Theatre: https://www.ilrossetti.it/it/spettacoli/green-shakespeare-trees-storms-flowers-and-the-moon-3233