“We have all murdered and been murdered in past lives.”
Nina Vangeli, in her fictional documentary Lady M, reflects on the theme of violence and power, play at violence and violence in playing. In doing so, she uses stylization in one of the few female theatre roles that thematize this archaic story of power. Through Shakespeare’s heroine, she guides us through a peculiar interpretation of the beauty and pleasure that the play’s principle of violence represents. The all-female cast references issues of gendered violence and stands in counterpoint to the commonly portrayed consumerist violence in the media.
