Photo Flash: Ninagawa Company's MACBETH at Barbican Theatre

Ninagawa Company's Macbeth introduced UK audiences to the theatre of Yukio Ninagawa 30 years ago and this epoch-making production is now reprised at the Barbican to celebrate the work of the late Japanese director. Combining Eastern tradition and aesthetic with Western culture, the production became an overnight sensation when it received its European premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1985. Following its London run, Macbeth plays at the Theatre Royal Plymouth (Friday 13-Saturday 14 October).

Check out an exclusive look at the show below!

Faithful to the text's depiction of honour and revenge, yet rich in symbolism, this staging of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy blurs the divide between the sacred and secular. Masachika Ichimura and Yuko Tanaka, stars in Japan of stage and screen respectively, lead the cast in this revival which transposes the action to a 16th-century samurai world in war-torn Japan.

Macbeth is performed in Japanese with English surtitles.

Photo credit: Roy Tan

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