Macbeth at Subiaco Arts Centre

Macbeth at Subiaco Arts Centre

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Posted 2016-09-06 by Douglas Sutherland-Brucefollow

Thu 22 Sep 2016 - Sat 24 Sep 2016

Few playwrights have had their works so transformed and transposed as Shakespeare. We have recently seen The Importance of Being Earnest presented as a 1930's pantomime, but in fifty years in theatre I've seen Julius Caesar set in a British Officer's mess and in Fascist Italy; Richard III set in imaginary Fascist Britain and in Victorian outback Australia.

I've seen Macbeth set in Shaka's Zululand, performed by Zulus in the Zulu language and also as a motorcycle gang like the Hells Angels.



All of these worked, and worked well, so I'm very much looking forward to The Actors' Hub's production in which the Scottish play is 're-imagined in the hot-blodied, back-stabbing halls of Scotland Senior High School.'

Director Amanda Crewes has seized the opportunity to use the violence and action of this bloody play to serve as an insight into such controversial subjects as substance abuse, teenage sexuality, personality disorders, and mental illness.



Crewes says: "Macbeth exposes audiences to the level of risk these kids live with on a daily basis and its disastrous effects. This Macbeth has an Underbelly quality, presenting a life that we don't normally see and that most people would like to pretend does not exist.'

Crewes graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1998. She has performed with Perth Theatre Company, Kompany M, Handzon Theatre, Barking Gecko and Melbourne's Playbox Theatre. Building on her own career, and her father's belief that anyone can take up acting, Amanda decided to start The Actor's Hub in 2013.

The Actors' Hub introduces aspiring performers to industry professionals and teaches vital skills, so they can gain and maintain a competitive edge in the industry. The Hub is unique in that it remains invested in the professional journey's of it's students throughout their careers.

Macbeth is on at The Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Road, Subiaco, at 7.30pm on September the 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Tickets are $30 full and $25 concession – book on Ticketek .

Street parking is available and ticketed parking at the centre.


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!date 22/09/2016 -- 24/09/2016
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