Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian

June 19, 2014

At 27 storeys tall, the Balfron Tower stands in the shadow of Canary Wharf; a building that once stood as a monument to idealism in social housing, now reduced to a crumbling obelisk in the east London skyline.

But, at least temporarily, the decaying flats and empty walkways of the high-rise block, designed by Erno Goldfinger, will be brought back to life as the stage for Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. In a fully immersive production that opens in July, audience members will spend 12 hours overnight in the building, as the play is acted out over three floors of the tower.

The play will go on to the early hours of the morning, after which the audience are encouraged to sleep in their designated flats, until they are woken at dawn for the final scenes and breakfast on the roof. […continued]

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