Company Chordelia and Solar Bear are delighted to be co-producing Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here. This exciting and unique new dance theatre piece explores the complex character of Lady Macbeth with a cast of 3 men, all playing Lady Macbeth. Power. Guilt. The conflict between masculinity and femininity. Read more …
Using the language from Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a source, British Sign Language will become a part of the choreography producing a piece of dance & movement theatre which will reach D/deaf and hearing audiences on different levels and in different ways.
This Lady Macbeth is captured as much by the limitations of expected gender roles – cleaning, mothering and the clothes that disguise the male bodies of the performers – as by the monstrosity of her behaviour.
Dense, chilling.
The visual aesthetic of the piece – dark, simple with the dancers emerging from three little alcoves in which they have been preparing at dressing tables – is exquisite.
Most intriguing of all, the dancers are all male, which not only echoes Shakespearean era casting, but opens up endless questions about gender and what is deemed male or female behaviour.
Visually, the piece is always compelling.
Q&A: choreographer Kally Lloyd Jones
On Tour, from Saturday October 22, 2016, until Saturday November 19, 2016. http://www.chordelia.co.uk/newsdiary.
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