About This Show:
Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The great chain of being is disrupted. Duncan is dead and the world is now upside down. Nature and Heaven are not happy with the Macbeth’s who have listened greedily to the equivocations of the witches and what is fair is now foul.
In this abridged Macbeth the motif of blood runs like a river washing away order and leaving chaos in its wake. Our tragic hero and heroine challenge the role of gender and look to the supernatural for guidance.
Acclaimed international director Jason Klarwein (Othello and Much Ado About Nothing) transforms the wilds of Scotland to the classroom bringing a new and reimagined take to one of Shakespeare’s most poetic and action packed plays. Using the literary devices of Elizabethan/Jacobean text this work delves into the themes of ambition, power, tragic heroes and heroines, free will, gender roles and history.
