The story in “Macbeth” is presented as a form of a nightmare. (…) As a mechanism, it fascinates by its very terror and inevitability. A nightmare paralyses and terrifies. In Macbeth the story, as well as the crime, is portrayed through personal experiences. The crime is a decision, a choice, committed at one’s own account and, definitely, with one’s own hands. The story in „Macbeth” is unclear, the way some nightmares are. And just like in a nightmare, everyone becomes enveloped by it. (…) One wades through nightmare, which gradually rises up to one’s throat. „I am in blood. Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er” Jan Kott, “Macbeth, or Death-Infected”
photos: Stefan Okołowicz
Lowland Hall, Edinburgh International Festival, Szkocja (11-18.08.2012) St. Ann’s Warehouse, Nowy Jork (17-23.06, 25-29.06.2008)
Reviews
“The production shocks with a vision of the world where a war against terrorism turns into a war that a human fights against him/herself. Pity that army generals don’t read Shakespeare”
Roman Pawłowski, Gazeta Wyborcza
“The scale of the set – resembling a 3-floor urban fortress in Beirut or Baghdad – is so impressive that, in many ways, Grzegorz Jarzyna’s production ceases to be live theatre, and becomes a kind of IMAX installation experience.”
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
“Such liberal take on the interpretation makes for a vividly contemporary Macbeth. In Jarzyna’s hands, Macbeth’s themes of power and corrupted ambition become even more prominent.”
