Macbeth comes to Murwillumbah

By Madeleine Murray

MACBETH IS Shakespeare’s most thrilling play, with lashings of witchcraft, fatal prophecies and an evil, scheming wife.

Murwillumbah Theatre Company will put on the great classic at the Civic Centre, opening on March 10.

The play charts the bloody rise to power and doomed downfall of the Scottish warrior Macbeth.

“It’s exciting to be doing another Shakespeare,” director Lydia Plim told The Weekly.

“It’s a massive production. We are actually building two wings that extend out so the actors will be closer to the audience.

“The actors will be popping up everywhere, it will be interactive.

“Yasir, who plays Macbeth, is an amazing actor, he’s great to work with, he’s going to be a brilliant Macbeth.”

“It’s the role of a lifetime,” Yasir told The Weekly. “Macbeth is a very complex character, who requires a lot of work.

“The language is just astonishing. The more I read it, the more I realise how rich and deep it is.”

The actors are using real swords and daggers, so they are having medieval combat training.

“We are looking to make it as realistic as possible,” Lydia said.

Macbeth is a tale of the fatal physical and psychological effects of political ambition, ignited by a mysterious prophecy uttered during Macbeth’s eerie encounter with the three ‘Weird Sisters’ on the heath.

After the first prophecy comes true, Macbeth is consumed by ambition and goaded into murder by his ruthless wife Lady Macbeth, one of the great female villains in literature.

The play is full of famous lines, such as “Double, double toil and trouble,” “Out, out damned spot”, and “Is this a dagger which I see before me?”

Macbeth has been performed all around the world, and made into many films.

If you have never seen the play or film, now is your chance.

Macbeth opens at 7.30pm at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre on Friday, March 10, and closes on Sunday, April 2.

Ticketed seating available at www.murwillumbahtheatrecompany.com.au