HOME in Manchester presents two classic plays as part of its 2016 programme with productions of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.
Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin are to create a new version of Macbeth. Beginning with Shakespeare’s text, the powerful and unsettling choreography weaves its way throughout the supernatural tragedy.
The first Shakespeare to be staged at HOME, Macbeth runs between February 2-6.
Samuel Beckett’s dark and macabre play makes a grim joke of life.
Chair-bound tyrant Hamm and his dutiful but resentful servant/companion Clov are irrevocably bound to one another.
Beckett compared the tense co-dependency to his own relationship with his wife in the 1950s; both wanted to leave the other, but were afraid to face life alone.
A co-production between HOME and Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, Endgame features David Neilson as Hamm and Chris Gascoyne as Clov. Citizens Theatre artistic director Dominic Hill directs.
It runs at HOME between February 25 and March 12, after its run at the Citizens.