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Haitian Art to Represent Julius Caesar at World Shakespeare Festival
- Tuesday, 06 September 2011 13:23
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, United Kingdom (defend.ht) - Mario Benjamin one of the most powerful painters of Haiti has drawn the head of the dictator and it will be the poster for Director Gregory Doran's adaptation of Julius Caesar.
In the birthplace of the ancient playwright and poet William Shakespeare, this adaption in which Benjamin piece will represent is part of the World Shakespeare Festival.
About Mario Benjamin
Mario Benjamin was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1964 and is a self-taught artist. Benjamin began exhibiting in 1982, and has since shown his work in such countries as Italy, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Spain, France and the United States. In 1997 he was invited to participate in the Biennials of Johannesburg, then the Havana Biennale, which were followed by invitations to the Biennial of Sao Paulo and the Biennial of Venice.
“Mario Benjamin is a stubborn and complex character. He was born in a country where his experience of the absurd forced him into conflict with madness and he was obliged to recreate himself. He fashioned himself alone, far from a world in which he was unable to decently recognize himself.” Simon Njami, Curator (Otro Pais, Escalas Africanas)
The dictator must be assassinated. But who will replace him?
Shakespeare’s great political thriller, Julius Caesar, finds dark, contemporary echoes in modern Africa, directed by RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran.
Gregory’s most recent productions include Shakespeare’s ‘lost play’ Cardenio, re-imagined as part of the RSC’s 50th birthday celebrations, as well as his 2008 production of Hamlet.
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Source: AfroNova
, Research by Michelle Mevs Portes
