
Acting
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
6 PM
BLACK BOX, PALAZZO DIEDO
Free entrance until capacity is met.
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Acting
A film by Sophie Fiennes
2024
2h 25m
The screening is in English
The event will be followed by a talk between the director, Sophie Fiennes, and Adriana Rispoli, Curator at Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture.
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ACTING brims with ideas, fearless performances and emotion, taking the viewer inside the experience of acting. Celebrated theatre makers Declan Donnellan (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre at the Venice Biennale in 2016) and Nick Ormerod, of the internationally acclaimed theatre company Cheek By Jowl, reveal their process through this thrilling and immersive film from director Sophie Fiennes.
The documentary flows Cheek by Jowl’s exploration of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with a focus on the process of acting through the company’s unique methodology. The film, set in a derelict mansion on the outskirts of London, features eight actors working in pairs as four Macbeths and Lady Macbeths to play the iconic and fated couple, constantly slipping between acting and living.