Description

It’s hard to imagine a darker tale than General Macbeth’s bloody descent into hell – he whose lust for power and all-consuming paranoia spawn regicides, betrayals and suicides.

The spirits of murdered rivals come to claim their due. The predictions of ghostly witches come true. The dead and their blood irrevocably stain the hands of the survivors. Ominous signs multiply. Macbeth is an account of terrible fatality, where ambition and brutality ooze from everywhere.

This world finds contemporary echoes in the biker wars of late 20th-century Quebec. Castles become countryside motels. Banquets are barbecues where picnic tables are covered with beer and hot dogs. People meet their demise drowned at the bottom of a lake, wearing cement boots, rather than at swordpoint. The Great Birnam Wood is transformed into a field of cannabis. And if you have to flee, it’s by motorcycle or rowboat rather than on horseback or three-masted ship.

One thing remains, however: Shakespeare’s remarkable lucidity as he examines the most primal of human impulses.

SCHEDULE

  • Part 1 : 70 min.
  • Intermission : 20 min.
  • Part 2 : 65 min.

TOTAL : 155 min.

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Cast

  • Alexandre Goyette — Macbeth
  • Violette Chauveau — Lady Macbeth
  • Reda Guerinik — Banquo
  • To be announced — Fleance
  • Richard Fréchette — Duncan, Siward, Picnic guest
  • Dominique Quesnel — Porter
  • Guillaume Laurin — Malcolm, Don Albain, Cawdor
  • David Boutin — Macduff
  • Gabriel Simard — Lennox, Angus, Cawdor
  • Mathieu Quesnel — Ross, Mentheith
  • Rodley Pitt — Seyton, Murderer 2, Doorman
  • Fabrice Yvanoff Sénat — Witch 1, Picnic guest, Pool player 1, Biker
  • Philippe Racine — Witch 2, Picnic guest, Bodyguard, Pool player 2, Detective
  • Olivier Normand — Witch 3, Bodyguard, Picnic guest, Paramedic
  • Marco Poulin — Murderer 1, Messenger, Pool player 3

Credit

  • Designed and Directed by Robert Lepage
  • By William Shakespeare
  • Translated into Quebec by Michel Garneau
  • Creative Director Steve Blanchet
  • Assistant Director Félix Dagenais
  • Set and Props Designer Ariane Sauvé
  • Costume Designer Michael Gianfrancesco
  • Lighting Designer Kimberly Purtell
  • Composer and Sound Designer John Gzowski
  • Stratford Festival 2025 created in collaboration with Ex Machina.
  • Co-production of the French version by Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ex Machina, Théâtre français de Centre national des Arts and Le Diamant..
  • The Québécois translation by Michel Garneau is performed in an abridged version in this production.
A presentation of
Beneva
Public Programming Partners
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec Ville de Québec Conseil des arts du Canada Canada