By Sheri Barrett for BroadwayWorld.com, 30 March 2015
What happens when two of the world’s most extraordinary theater companies, the England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Scotland, make the decision to work together on a sequel to Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, one of his darkest and most powerful works? It’s no less than a magical combination of talent that makes an improbable tale seem to be the essence of truth about sex, politics and power. Patricia Wolff, Interim Artistic Director of The Wallis adds, “David Greig‘s thrilling new drama brilliantly straddles the ancient and modern worlds, playing like a cross between “Game of Thrones” and “House of Cards.”
Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfill the ambition for power. Fierce one minute and bitingly funny the next, DUNSINANE is a modern language sequel, beginning when English General Siward storms the Castle on Dunsinane Hill and assassinates Macbeth – only to find Lady Macbeth still alive and unwilling to relinquish the throne. Evidently her suicide only SEEMED to have happened, another hoax perpetrated by the Queen, now calling herself Gruach, to advance her desire to rule Scotland on her own.
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