The multi-award winning Mark Bruce Company will tour their haunting new dance/theatre re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in 2018.
With direction and choreography by visionary artistic director Mark Bruce, a cast of nine outstanding performers and dramatic design by the same creative team behind Dracula and The Odyssey, Mark Bruce Company’s Macbeth will realise a beautifully harrowing vision of an internal wasteland formed from the pursuit of power through ruthless means.
Drama, dance and film audiences will be drawn to Bruce’s imaginative vision of the treacherous Macbeths’ (Jonathan Goddard, Eleanor Duval left, photo by Nicole Guarino) toxic world of jealousy, ambition and corruption. Set in a supernatural and brutal underworld, both tragic and beautiful, with a horror film atmosphere of menace and murder … all of this will be packed into Bruce’s new production.
Mark Bruce said ““Macbeth hits you fast, cuts through to the bone, and for me it is the least ambiguous of Shakespeare’s plays. Its darkness opens our nightmares; we recognise fundamental traits inside ourselves and the consequences of acting upon them. The vicious pursuit of power to fill a void will always be relevant – the Macbeths are everywhere in every age, because they are a part of us.”
