State Theatre's Staging of MACBETH Set to Startle Audiences in Our Contemporary Urban World

State Theatre Company's recently appointed ensemble will bring the Scottish play to audiences in our contemporary urban world in a filmic staging on a set designed by South Australian set designer Victoria Lamb.

Director Geordie Brookman will bring Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's greatest dramas, to life exploring its commonalities with the brutality of modern warfare.

Geordie Brookman said 'Macbeth is an extraordinary study of what happens when trauma intersects with ambition. But most of all it is about the nightmare that lies before those who take life.'

'Designer Victoria Lamb and I have created a thoroughly contemporary psychological landscape for the Macbeths to inhabit. There are no escape routes in this world and no avoiding the horror of one's own self.'

Macbeth. The perfect embodiment of ego and ambition? Or a grief stricken soldier trying to fill a hole in his heart that has no end? Lady Macbeth. The mistress of manipulation and power behind the throne? Or a shattered not-quite mother, fractured from the world around her? This extraordinary tale charts the brutal rise and fall of one of the theatre's most complex couples as we follow them on their increasingly merciless path towards the crown.

Shakespeare's grand tragedy will be jump-started by the State Theatre Company Ensemble, with Nathan O'Keefe (Things I Know To Be True, Betrayal) and Anna Steen (The Importance of Being Earnest, The 39 Steps) as the conjoined, madly beating hearts around which a vengeance-soaked world spins.

State Theatre Company's Ensemble will be joined on stage by veteran actor Peter Carroll (Krapp's Last Tape), Resident Artist Elena Carapetis and Christopher Pitman (Straight White Men, Othello).

It will be breathless.

It will be bloody.

It will be bold.

Directed by Geordie Brookman

With the State Theatre Company Ensemble: Rachel Burke, Miranda Daughtry, Rashidi Edward, Dale March, Nathan O'Keefe, Anna Steen,

Guest Artists Elena Carapetis, Peter Carroll, Christopher Pitman

Set & Costume Designer Victoria Lamb

Lighting Designer Geoff Cobham

Venue Dunstan Playhouse

Season Dates 25 August - 16 September 2017

Opening night 8:00pm, 29 August 2017

Tickets from $28

Bookings BASS 131 246 or www.statetheatrecompany.com.au