Macbeth - Kill Bill Shakespeare

2016, 90 minutes

What if Tarantino had written ‘Macbeth’?

Shakespeare's timeless, blood-soaked tale of murder, lust and power is to get a modern makeover this month, as Birmingham School of Acting presents a reworking of the tragic play that plays homage to some of director Quentin Tarntino’s best-loved films. ‘Macbeth – Kill Bill Shakespeare’ is an irreverent and imaginative take on one of the world’s most famous plays, with the production staying true to the original text. However, the images and style of ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Kill Bill’ will collide violently on stage with Shakespeare's verse, creating an exhilarating black comedy. Macbeth's descent into madness, his relentless pursuit of his own destruction fuelled by paranoid fantasies of power and betrayal, find poignant echoes in the violent world inhabited by Tarantino's gangsters, drug dealers and deadly assassins. Underscored by a highly-charged modern soundtrack, cinematic form and theatrical convention combine, creating a production that promises to be fast, furious, comic and provocative.

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