【HKISF】"Macbettu"Sardegna Teatro

Italian talented director Alessandro Serra and an all-male cast hold the stage with a sensational physical theatre

Italian director Alessandro Serra sets Shakespeare's most compact tragedy in the ancient and mysterious island of Sardinia, Italy, utilising its unique culture and customs to create the darkest interpretation of Macbeth. The primitive desire for power fills the desolate land, where cowbells, animal skins, horns, stones and human voices pierce the theatre and intense lighting strikes the nerve. Resembling the tradition of Elizabethan theatre during Shakespeare's time, the all-male cast puts on an eerie, physical and all-baring performance to showcase the shocking and extreme darkness in human nature.

**Recipient of the Best Show of the Year, Ubu Award 2017; the Best Prose Show, The Masks of the Theater Award 2019 and the Baltic Theater Festival Prize 2021**

"Alessandro Serra subtly distils the quintessential plot of the tragedy, often transmuting text into visual metaphors. Macbettu is an incessant cauldronful of fiendishly inventive ideas orchestrated by Serra like an irresistible dance macabre."—SAGE Journals

* 2024.6.11 with post-performance meet-the-artist session.
Host: Ata Wong (Artistic Director of THÉÂTRE DE LA FEUILLE)

• Performed in Sardinian with Chinese and English surtitles.
• Audience under the age of 16 will not be admitted.
• You are recommended to arrive 30 minutes before the event starts. Latecomers will not be admitted after the performance begins.
• The running time of the performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
• This programme contains nudity scenes and dust effects.
• The organiser reserves the right to make changes to the programme without prior notice.

HKISF
Presented by: Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio
Strategic and Venue Partner: West Kowloon Cultural District
Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio is financially supported by the HKADC's "Eminent Arts Group Scheme".

The content of these programmes does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region.

Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.