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Dateline: 21st March, 2007
RSC Macbeth/Macbett Casting One company of actors will perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth in repertoire with Tanya Ronder’s new version of Eugene Ionesco’s Macbett in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Macbeth previews from 11th April, and Macbett from 25th May 2007. Written during the Cold War, Ionesco’s Macbett remoulds Shakespeare’s play into a furiously comic tale of ambition, corruption, cowardice and excess, creating a tragic farce which takes human folly to its wildest extremes. Romanian born Eugene Ionesco was one of the most innovative playwrights of the modern stage, who moved theatre away from naturalism and towards a heightened imaginative truth which became known as Theatre of the Absurd.
Macbeth is directed by the award winning Irish director and writer, Connall Morrison, an Associate Artist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He won an Irish Times Theatre Award for best director for his adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn for the Abbey. The play later transferred to the National Theatre. His other productions for the Abbey include Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn, The Freedom of the City and As the Beast Sleeps by Gary Mitchell. His has also directed Antigone, Dancing in Lughnasa, Juno and the Paycock and Ghosts for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and Martin Guerre for Cameron Mackintosh. His own plays include Rough Justice, Hard to Believe and Green, Orange, Pink. He recently directed La Traviata for the ENO at the Coliseum in London.
Macbett is directed by the internationally acclaimed Romanian born Silviu Purcarete who has worked in European Theatre for more than twenty years, most notably for the National Theatre of Craiova, Romania and Theatre Bulandra. His productions have won many awards and great critical acclaim both in Romania and abroad. His work has been seen extensively in the UK and includes The Decameron, Phaedra, Aeschylus’ Les Danaides (Birmingham and Glasgow), Oresteia (Lyric Hammersmith), Ubu Rex (Edinburgh International Festival) and The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse). In 1996 he became director of the Centre Dramatique National de Limoges. He now lives in Paris where he has his own theatre company. Opera credits include La Bohème (Essen) and Parsifal (Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera). Patrick O’Kane makes his RSC debut playing the title role in Macbeth and David Troughton plays Duncan. Derbhle Crotty returns to the company to play Lady Macbeth. Jude Akuwudike plays Banquo and Macduff is played by Brian Doherty.
The cast also includes Richard Atwill (Menteith), Thane Bettany (Old Man), Sam Cox (Lennox), Ryan Gage (Donalbain), Emmanuel Ighodara (Malcolm), Sean Kearns (Ross), Jason Nwoga (Caithness), Mark Theodore (Bleeding Captain), Joel Trill (Angus), David Troughton (Duncan), Mojisola Adebayo (Witch), Frances Ashman (Witch), Pauline Hutton (Lady Macduff) and Sarah Malin (Witch). David Troughton plays the title role in Macbett and Patrick O’Kane plays Duncan.
The cast also includes Jude Akuwidike (Glamiss), Richard Atwill, Thane Bettany (Malol), Sam Cox (Candor), Brian Doherty, Ryan Gage, Emmanuel Ighodoro, Sean Kearns (Banco), Jason Nwoga, Mark Theodore, Joel Trill, Mojisola Adebayo, Frances Ashman, Derbhle Crotty (Lady Duncan), Patrick O’Kane (Duncan), Pauline Hutton and Sarah Malin (Witch). Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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