A COMÉDIA INFERNAL
Drama para um Actor, dois Sopranos e Orquestra
Anunciado no verão este retorno de Malkovitch aos palcos em Viena e depois Florença. Ver John Malkovich em palco leva-nos de imediato a entender o amâgo da arte dramática e o captar dum momento único e especial.
Este texto é baseado em factos reais. John Unterweger é um criminoso convicto e um poeta, jornalista e escritor reconhecido. Durante o periodo de reintegração é gradualmente suspeito do assassínio de prostitutas.
THE INFERNAL COMEDY – Cast
John Malkovich (Jack Unterweger)
Aleksandra Zamojska, Laura Aikin | Sopranos
Wiener Akademie | Orchestra
Martin Haselböck | Conductor
Birgit Hutter | Costumes
Michael Sturminger | Director | Writer
Music | Vivaldi, Haydn, Beetthoven, Bocherini and Weber
DVD (video) ARTHAUS cat. No. NTSC 101517 (disponivel Amazon e outros sítios)
When a dead serial killer returns to the stage to present his autobiography in a public reading, a comedy is not exactly what we are in for; but what are we demanding, anyway, if we are waiting to see a new opera/play about a murderer of women, for an orchestra on period instruments, two sopranos and one actor? The forecast changes completely if we learn that John Malkovich is going to play the role of Jack, who is launching his “Confessions of a serial killer”. Now we definitely expect the unexpected. That very anticipation made me bold enough to try to write the libretto, and it helped me to finish it within a few weeks. The beginning was simple. While performing easy jokes like a stand-up comedian, Jack introduces his book, which flamboyantly he has called “The Infernal Comedy”. Having come that far, the writer only had to imagine what John’s Jack would be doing next; and what he did was look for the truth? Once the play was written it was a pure pleasure to direct, especially since the piece gave John room for improvisation in a literal way, which means continually improving it and making it better! Although staying perfectly faithful to direction, text and his partners on the stage, John, in every single rehearsal or performance, searched for new possibilities to surprise himself and us.
In 1976, John Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary Sinise. After that, it would take seven years before Malkovich would show up in New York and win an Obie in Sam Shepard's play "True West". In 1984, Malkovich would appear with Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman", which would earn him an Emmy when it was made into a made-for-TV movie the next year. His big-screen debut would be as the blind lodger in Um Lugar no Coração (1984), which earned him an Academy Award Nomination for best supporting actor. Other films would follow, including Terra Sangrenta (1984) and Algemas de Cristal (1987), but he would be well remembered as Vicomte de Valmont in Ligações Perigosas (1988). Playing against Michelle Pfeiffer and Glenn Close in a costume picture helped raise his standing in the industry. He would be cast as the psychotic political assassin in Clint Eastwood's Na Linha de Fogo (1993), for which he would be nominated for both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe. Malkovich has periodically returned to Chicago to both act and direct.
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