Beijing
Time: 22 - 23 April 2014
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts
Ticket price: RMB VIP580/500/420/300/180
Shanghai
Time: 26 - 27 April 2014
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre
Ticket price: RMB 880/680/580/380/280/180
Program: Dunsinane
A Co-production of National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company
Playwright: David Greig
Director: Roxana Silbert
Lead Cast: Siobhan Redmond
"A triumph... Roxana Silbert's supple production is beautifully acted... engaged, articulate, provocative entertainment." - The Times
"Gripping first-rate drama from one of the country's most talented and versatile playwrights." - Evening Standard
Macbeth is dead, long live the King. Under cover of night, an English army has swept through the Scottish landscape, killed the tyrant and taken the seat of power.
Attempting to restore peace and put in place a new ruler, Siward, the commanding officer, is beset by a brutal guerrilla uprising and simmering discontent amongst his own inexperienced troops. Struggling to grasp the alien customs and politics of this harsh country, he finds himself drawn towards Macbeth’s powerful widow in search of someone to share his burden of responsibility. Increasingly isolated from his own men and Scottish allies alike, his efforts to restore order appear futile as the situation spins out of control.
Director: Roxana Silbert
Roxana is Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Previously, she was Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where her work included: A Soldier in Every Son, Galileo, Measure for Measure, Richard III, Shakespeare Shorts, Such Tweet Sorrow (the world’s first Twitter play), Little Eagles, Dunsinane and Brixton Stories.
Her freelance work includes: Whistle in the Dark (Citizens, Glasgow); Under the Black Flag (Shakespeare’sGlobe); Precious and Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Property (National Theatre Studio,London); Damages (the Bush); The Price (Bolton Octagon); Top Girls and Translations (New Vic); Cadillac Ranch (Soho) and Slash Hatch on the E (Donmar).
The National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland has been entertaining audiences at home and beyond since February 2006. As Scotland’s national theatre, itwe exists to work collaboratively with the best companies and individuals to produce and tour world- class theatre. Its Our ambitions are simple and steadfast: :to create work that excites and challenges audiences and andwhich makes Scotland proud. With no building of itsour own, its our theatre takes place not only in the great buildings of Scotland, but also in sitespecific locations, such as airports and tower blocks, community halls and drill halls, ferries and forests. The company has performed to over one million people across four continents. All of Scotland is itsour stage, and from there itwe performs to the world.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Since we it opened itsour doors in 1961, the Royal Shakespeare Companywe have has been inviting the most talented and influential theatre makers to do their best work with us. During the pastose five decades, we haveit has produced plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside classics and new plays, with the classical and the contemporary enriching each other every step of the way. MWe welcome more than a million visitors have visited itsto our Stratford-upon-Avon theatres each year. What’s more, it and we tours to London, Newcastle upon Tyne, around the UK and across the world as well.