In Lady M, Theatre Jezebel explores the relationship between Shakespeare's power couple. Lady Macbeth: cold, irreligious, manipulative and demonic or charming, attractive, ambitious and devoted to her husband? The three weird sisters: who are they and what part do they play in the demise of Lady M?
' 'Hie the hither
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal.'
Lady M: a passionate, loving wife or a virago, a masculine soul inhabiting a female body?
Boiling Shakespeare’s most exciting, gorily visceral play down to an hour of strutting and fretting upon the stage, this clipped but absorbing adaptation of the Scottish Play from Theatre Jezebel engages from the outset and never relinquishes its grip.
Mary McCluskey's adaptation may be an hour long, but by putting the play's most fascinating character at its centre on Kenny Miller's expansively handsome set of upended gold leaf chairs topped by weather-beaten parasols in the mirrored gloom of a leaf-strewn courtyard, it's as panoramic as it's ever been.
New production Lady M re-examines the Macbeth story
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Wednesday April 25, 2012, until Saturday April 28, 2012. More info: www.tron.co.uk
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