STAGE TUBE: Preview of EIF's 2008: MACBETH

2008: MACBETH, directed and adapted by Grzegorz Jarzyna, plays at the Edinburgh International Festival, August 11 to 18. In this scary trailer for the show, we get a preview of the pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and layered soundscape Jarzyna uses to transform Shakespeare's web of politics, ambition and the supernatural into a contemporary, and highly physical, theatrical film.

Set in a contemporary and brutal Middle Eastern conflict, 2008: Macbeth is unflinching in its depiction of the machine of violence that, once set in motion, works faster and ever more efficiently. If killing in a war is justified, so is killing in the privacy of one's home. If you can kill men, why not also women and children?

Presented by TR Warszawa after William Shakespeare, 2008: MACBETH is translated by Stanis?aw Bara?czak, directed and adapted by Grzegorz Jarzyna, and features Cezary Kosi?ski and Danuta Stenka.

The show is performed in Polish with English supertitles.

The show's Set and Costume Designers are Stephanie Nelson and Agnieszka Zawadowska. Music is by Abel Korzeniowski and Jacek Grudzie?. The Lighting Designer is Jacqueline Sobiszewski.

More information and tickets: http://www.eif.co.uk/macbeth

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