Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy will be presented at the Subiaco Arts Centre main stage in authentic period costume.

Stephen Lee is particularly interested in directing Macbeth as he feels that the simpler staging that touring requires will add to the power and impact of the play: “Directors can easily be led into beefing up the “eye candy”: the might and magic of the Witches. Even just a few years after it was first acted, writers were paid to add songs and flying sequences to the play. Yet this distorts Shakespeare’s aim, so far as I can see. This is one of his most condensed and emotive plays. I hope to strip away the spectacle and make the witches far more human, with power to seduce rather than coerce. This shifts the plays emphasis to where it rightly belongs: the story of an essentially good couple, tempted by the lure of power into treachery and murder. She closes her eyes to her deeds and eventually falls into madness; he accepts what he has to do and is slowly hardened into a psychopath.”

Directed by Stephen Lee and starring Ian Bolgia, David Meadows, Dan Luxton, Angelique Malcolm, James Davies, Stephen Lee & Kim Walsh.

One Week Only: June 24 to 28 (8pm and three matinee performances)

Subiaco Arts Centre, 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco

Standard: $32.00 Concession: $27.00/$20.00 (groups & other discounts available)

TICKETS THROUGH BOCS: (08) 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au

Groups 6+ (08) 9321 6831