Changgeuk Lady Macbeth (창극 레이디 맥베스), National Gugak Center    

/ National Gugak Center/

This performance reconstructs the original play to centre on Lady Macbeth, who is suffering from the consciousness of guilt. The Doctor hypnotizes Lady Macbeth to face this overpowering guilt. Lady Macbeth is directed by Tae-sook Han, which has been continually performed since the 1998 premiere, was at this time recreated as a Pansori version. Pansori is a Korean traditional opera like Peking opera of China. Eun-hye Jung, a prima donna of Pansori, performed the role of Lady Macbeth. 

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Dying to Succeed, Yuki Ellias

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Dying to Succeed is a whacky show about Shakespeare's iconic characters in today's corporate world. Iago is bitter as Othello doesn't give him the promotion he thinks he deserves; Macbeth is eyeing the CEO's office; and Portia multi-tasks and multi-roles her way around the glass ceiling. Guest appearances by Lady Macbeth, Cordelia, Romeo and Juliet...with a little help from the audience! This is a solo theatre, stand-up and audience interactive performance.

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Macbeth, The Ithaca Shakespeare Company

/ Hangar Theatre/

“Witches and ghosts, madness and murder, swordfights, soliloquies, and two of the most compelling characters ever created…

Part myth and part morality play, a profound examination of the psychology of guilt and the forces that influence human action, this great supernatural thriller makes the perfect finale to the Halloween season!” –from the company website

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Macbeth, The Vagrancy

/ The Shakespeare Center of LA/

Haunted by the prophecies of three nightmarish witches and bolstered by his ambitious wife, Macbeth's thirst for power propels him down a path of tyranny, murder and madness. Featuring butoh-inspired choreography and gruesome stage combat, Hart's aggressive cut, set in a mythological Scotland, promises to be an unnerving and eerie fusion of classic and modern futility.

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Macbeth – This is Another Exorcism (맥베드 – 이것은 또 하나의 굿이다)

/ Daehakro Arts Theatre /

An empty stage, once looked as if only faded grey could exist, returns to life with the breath of actors, now contantly stirring and full of energy. Macbeth, an immortal story, will deeply resonate within the audience as the play transforms into a Gut (the exorcist ritual performed by Korean shamans) through voices and movements of highly trained actors, painting its scenes with sensibility of East and West and of all ages.

Macbeth - This is Another Exorcism has been selected to be performed for the 2016 Seoul Performing Arts Festival.

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Macbeth, University of Nevada UNLV Conservatory

/ UNLV Black Box Theatre/

The Nevada Conservatory Theatre kicks-off the Halloween season with Shakespeare's ghostly Macbeth October. 14-30 in the Black Box Theatre. Darren Weller directs. A Scottish general receives a prophecy from three witches that changes the course of his life. Driven by ambition to become King, Macbeth will kill anyone that gets in his way. Paranoia, deception, and treachery consume Macbeth and his wife, as they come to terms with his prophesied fate.

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Macbeth? Fatebenesorelle Teatro

/ Basilica Palladiana/

This show was designed as a site-specific staging of Macbeth, in the wardrobe of Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. In this space the directors wanted to recreate the crudeness of the contemporary world in juxtaposition with the rich beauty of the Basilica itself. Their version of Macbeth, as they remark, stresses "the radicalism of evil of the human soul, which leads to deceit and folly, in a constant contrast between the supernatural and the deviant interpretation of reality."   

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Shakespeare in Armenia

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In this post, three reviewers report on a Twelfth Night and a Julius Caesar in Armenian translation, a comic Iranian version of Macbeth, and a Shakespeare-themed dance performance, as the Armenian Shakespeare Association's conference Shakespeare 400: The Enigma of Endurance coincided with the annual Shakespeare Theatre Festival in Yerevan.

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Macbeth, Black Friars Theatre

/ Mangere Arts Centre/

A version of Macbeth set in a fictitious pan-Polynesian Hawaiki and drawing on Polynesian cultural traditions in music, dance and staging. Part of an ongoing engagement with a Polynesian response to Shakespeare, following a 2014 production of The Merchant of Venice by the same company.

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Verdi's Macbeth, Welsh National Opera

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Verdi described Macbeth as 'one of mankind's greatest creations'. His opera based on the play was part of the Welsh National Opera's autumn Shakespeare400 Season. WNO Artistic Director David Pountney said ‘It's a marvellous opportunity for us to bring together enormously varied works which Shakespeare’s works have inspired.’   

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A Terrified Soul - Macbeth, China Anhui Opera Institute

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“China Anhui Opera Institute is proud to present A Terrified Soul, an exciting new adaptation of Macbeth. An eclectic fusion of contemporary and classical Chinese opera elements.” (description from the Fringe Programme)                       

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Solo Shakespeare, Macbeth: Hecate's Poison

/ Quaker Meeting House/
Solo Shakespeare, Macbeth: Hecate's Poison

“This adaptation of Macbeth is told by Hecate, the goddess of crossroads, from her point of view. An unusual yet classical version of Shakespeare, performed by a single player.
 (description from the Fringe Programme)                 

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Macbeth: Without Words, Ludens Ensemble

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“A stark, stylised performance of boundless ambition and the destruction it ultimately wreaks. Three actors, accompanied by a live DJ set and dynamic projections, create a dark and potent visual language. "Remarkable, essential viewing" (Herald).” --description from Fringe Programme.

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Macbeth, Baela Productions/Fife Youth Arts

/ The Edinburgh Academy /

“Set in 1953 against the backdrop of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Lady Macbeth is presented as a picture-perfect housewife. However, behind closed suburbia doors she rebels against convention; successfully manipulating and driving her husband towards treason.” --description from Fringe programme     

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Blood Will Have Blood, ImmerCity

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“After Banquo's murder, his son Fleance is adrift in Macbeth's brutal new Scotland. He/the audience are taken under the wing of a strange woman from the heath. Interactive, audio-immersive show.” --description from Fringe programme.

Blood Will Have Blood was an audio-immersive companion to the company's 2015 show Fire Burn: The Tragedy of Macbeth which returned to the Fringe in 2016 and played in rep.

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Macbeth essere (e) tempo, Archivio Zeta 

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The two directors, who also adapted the text, believe that their production presents the figure of a new man. Macbeth is an antihero who brings within him fairness and unfairness, a sort of Copernicus who in between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth century challenges the status quo. He oscillates between the symbolic inheritance and the new relativism which leads to modernity.

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