WELSH company Volcano will stage a radical re-telling of "the Scottish Play" on tour at York Theatre Royal for one night only on Tuesday.
Originally directed by Nigel Charnock in 1999, this furious two-hander from the Volcano back catalogue has been re-made for 2016, re-emerging once more as Macbeth – Director's Cut.
Company founder and original cast member Paul Davies directs a new generation of performers, Alex Harries and Mairi Phillips, in a "lyrical, apocalyptic, extreme and dangerous" reinterpretation of Shakespeare's bloodiest and most intense play.
Volcano's production strips Macbeth bare of its regal cushioning to evoke the tawdry domestic world of contemporary serial killers in an erotic and violent theatrical assault on the senses.
Macbeth –Director’s Cut has toured to Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Canada, Greece, the Nitra Festival in Slovakia, the New European Festival in Russia and Almagro Festival in Spain, as well as the Dublin Fringe and the South Bank Centre.
Volcano have been making extraordinary theatre from their base in Swansea for nearly 30 years and consider themselves to be Wales's most consistently inventive performance company.
Tickets for Tuesday's 7.30pm performance are available at £16 from the Theatre Royal box office in person, by phone on 01904 623568 or online at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
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