Macbeth
By Shakespeare
Warning: In Chinese with English surtitles.
Violence.
Category: Theatre/Dance
Genre: Shakespeare
Company:
Tang Shu Wing Theatre
Venue:
Hong Kong City Hall
Date and Time:
March 16-20, 8pm and 3pm on Sundays
Ticket Price:
160-300
Location:
HK Island
Nearest MTR Station:
Admiralty
Ticketing By: Urbtix
Age Limitation: 12
When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant's crown.
Tang Shu-wing's dynamic interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy inhabits a hallucinatory world of sound and shadow. It starts in a modern setting with a contemporary couple dreaming they are Macbeth and his fiendish wife. Transplanted back in time to chilling mists, witchcraft, war and apparitions, fate sees their ambition destroyed in a welter of blood.