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THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Directed by Yaël Farber
ALMEDIA THEATRE - LONDON, UK
2 OCTOBER - 27 NOVEMBER 2021
“Stars hide your fires / Let not light see my black and deep desires"
A little later than now, in the ruins of an abandoned theatre… three women wait.
The tap is dry, the clock is still, a ladder to nowhere leans against the wall. The ghost light burns on in the dark.
To the haunting strains of Vera Lynn’s epochal “We’ll meet again” seeping through the air, the company enters and begins once again to play out - as they do night after night - the great War without an end.
Farber directed 4 times Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan and James Mcardle in a critically acclaimed, Olivier nominated production. In her signature, elemental style, on a bare stage, with the boots of fallen soldiers, the poetics of imagery and a cello juxtaposing the brutalities of war - Yael Farber directed in a highly acclaimed MACBETH that gripped post-pandemic London (and the world beyond - with a livestream) garnering rave reviews and Olivier Nominations for Best Revival and Best Supporting Actress.
Farber conjured Shakespeare’s most thrilling tragedy here - combining the poetics of beautiful imagery and cello with the brutality of war and unbridled ambition in an elemental production about a world in transformation, the shadows in all of us, and one couple’s spine-chilling quest for power.
PRESS
“Deserves to be seen by as many people as possible”.
THE INDEPENDENT | Read more...
"Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle star in a production with emotional spark, palpable dread and a horrifying beauty"
THE GUARDIAN| Read more...
Yaël Farber's magnificently visceral production of Shakespeare's great tragedy is steeped in the blood-soaked grandeur of Celtic myth. With the spellbinding staging and electrifying performances creating spine-tingling immersive moments halfway between a film and a dream, it took my breath away.
DAILY EXPRESS | Read more...
“Farber's style fits this play beautifully and makes us see it afresh.”
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“Not for the first time, Farber owns every minute of the stage"
NEW YORK TIMES | Read More ...
"Getting swept up and along, along and along, is the essence of Farber’s creation.”
NEW STATESMAN | Read More...
"Farber’s work always delivers stunning imagery, and she conjures a murky, misty Scotland, sound-tracked by growling cello and witches’ sighs.”
DAILY MAIL | Read more...
"Exquisitely doomy new Macbeth…"
METRO| Read More...
‘A thunderous total marriage of sound, spectacle and performance’
TIME OUT| Read more…
“Intense, atmospheric production featuring magnetic performances from James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan.”
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“Farber slowly wheels the play around full circle — a recurring nightmare that will play out over and over.”
THE SUNDAY TIMES | Read more...
"a thrilling and tempestuous reading"
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"Yaël Farber’s brilliant Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre is insistently filmic."
TLS | Read more...
“sensational… a generational-best Macbeth. Director Yaël Farber has devised a powerhouse interpretation of the play"
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“Its a hugely intelligent reading. Sensational."
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THE COMPANY
Michael Abubakar
Ross Anderson
Aoife Burke
Emun Elliott
Diane Fletcher
William Gaunt
Myles Grant
Akiya Henry
Maureen Hibbert
Reuben Joseph
Gareth Kennerley
Valerie Lilley
Jamie-Lee Martin
James McArdle
Adam McNamara
Henry Meredith
Dereke Oladele
Richard Rankin
Saoirse Ronan
Emet Yah Khai
K-ets Yah Khai
Creative Team
By William Shakespeare
Direction Yaël Farber
Set Soutra Gilmour
Costume Joanna Scotcher
Light Tim Lutkin
Sound Peter Rice
Composer Tom Lane
Movement Emily Terndrup
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Children's Casting Verity Naughton
Fight Direction Kate Waters
Costume Supervisor Sydney Florence
Text Coach Andrea Ainsworth
Assistant Director Yasmin Hafesji
Assistant Set Designer Rachel Wingate
Children’s Casting Assistant Nick Hockaday