South African director Brett Bailey presents a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth, setting Shakespeare’s tale of an ambitious soldier amid refugees from the Congo.

As the refugees flee, they come across a truck containing Verdi’s sheet music and gramophone recordings of the opera. Inspired they tell their own version of the story in which a warlord and his wife seize power in an area where the militia fight over mineral resources.

Bold visuals and a reconstructed score combine in this production that is suitable for theatergoers aged 12 and older.

Macbeth is performed in Italian with English surtitles.

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