The American actor will perform in Madrid two unique performances of ‘Confessions of a Serial Killer’, a monologue with a string orchestra
John Malkovich (Christopher, Illinois, age 68) loves challenges. The American actor, who started in theater and established himself in cinema, returns to Spain to take the stage and offers just two performances of “The Infernal Comedy.” Confessions of a Serial Killer’. It will take place at the Conde Duque Cultural Center in Madrid, as part of the Veranos de la Villa program, this Thursday 11 and Friday 12 August. He is accompanied on stage by two sopranos and a string orchestra.
The play is based on the true story of the Austrian Jack Unterweger, a serial killer who decided in a surprising and poetic way to leave his confession in writing. There will be two unique opportunities to enjoy the talent of one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, star of legendary films such as ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, ‘In the Line of Fire’, ‘In a Place in the Heart’ or being “John Malkovich”.
In the specific staging, two sopranos and a string ensemble will perform baroque scores and pieces by great composers such as Mozart, Gluck, Haydn, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Weber and Beethoven.
Unterweger was on trial for the murder of a prostitute whom he choked with her own bra. The woman was 18 years old and he would be sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, he wrote some books that caught the attention of storytellers such as Günter Grass and Elfriede Jelinek, future Nobel Prize winners in Literature who joined a movement to request the release of the killer, arguing that his case is an example of re-enactment. integration would be. When Unterweger regained his freedom, he continued to write and came to work for Austrian public television. But he would be accused of choking 11 other women. Arrested and re-incarcerated, on his first night in prison, he hanged himself in his cell.
Malkovich takes the stage in Madrid after several failed attempts to present his ambitious and complex show ‘Just call me God’, about a twilight dictator, in Spain. He expects that he will leave room for improvisation and that his two performances will therefore not be identical.
Co-founder of Chicago theater company Steppenwolf, on stage he starred in plays such as ‘Death of a Salesman’ or ‘The True West’. He has adapted plays by Ernesto Sábato into theater and is preparing another by Roberto Bolaño. Also active on television, he won an Emmy for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and played the Pope in Paolo Sorrentino’s series ‘The New Pope’.
Source: La Verdad
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