
PRODUCTION
Lady
MANIFESTO
Who could Lady Macbeth have been.. if she hadn’t taken her husband’s last name?
SYNOPSIS
Perhaps no woman is considered greater villain than the ambitious, cunning and destructive Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1623). And sure, Lady Macbeth was responsible for goading her husband into regicide. But who might this character - referred to in the First Folio only as “Macbeth’s wife”, “Macbeth’s lady”, or just “lady” - have become in a different life, freed from her husband’s influence?
ACTIVISM
What is a wife? And what is left to a woman, who takes on her husband’s name, protection and entire identity?
RUN
King’s Cross Theatre, 31st May 2022. Part of the 2022 KXT Step Up Festival in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co.
CREW
Playwright: Jess Zlotnick
Director: Margaret Thanos
CAST
Lady: Natalie Low
Mother: Susan Jordan
Friend: Shanti Goupil-Gilderson
Brother: Andrew Ramage
Father: Brendan Miles
Soldier: Ewan Peddley
Crone: Eliva Andriamora