On the 8th, 9th and 10th of September, the Presidential Palace in Valletta has been designated as the 56th venue hosting the prestigious Castle Tour 2011.

This unique event has become the most comprehensive summer outdoor tour of any European Theatre Company. Come rain or shine this annual extraordinary production of one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces is staged in the castles and palaces of Europe and Scandinavia. Some of the Royal and noble European families, like King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia, host these highly professional performances inside their Royal Residence like the Drottningholm Slott in Sweden.

Shakespeare’s popular and accessible masterpiece is probably the most performed play ever written. It is a thriller, a ghost story, a political drama, a martial epic and even a type of love story. It also portrays the greatest study of evil ever penned.

As directed by Paul Stebbings in this full-blooded production, the witches are the shamans, the wild forest spirits who are neither man nor woman. They unleash all the dark dramatic energy. Macbeth is a soldier, not a thinker but his bravery is corrupted by ambition. His wife is also a type of witch who calls down the demons to ‘unsex her.’ She is ultimately possessed and destroyed by the spirits she thought to command. The setting is historical.

Besides the much admired TNT ingredients which include a highly physical style, and dynamic interpretations coupled with qualitative Shakespearean verse speaking, producer Grantly Marshall describes this production as having an atmospheric setting and dense musical score by composer Paul Flush, powerful choreography from Eric Tessier and striking visual imagery.

First performed in the year 2000, TNT’s Macbeth has toured to over 30 countries on four continents. This makes it the Macbeth that has been seen by more people in more countries than any other in the past 10 years. Small wonder that the UK’s The Observer has called it “World Class Theatre.”

Tickets for this unique event may be procured via the website www.biljetti.com or the Ticket Hotline 79790200.

Macbeth by TNT Theatre Britain in Malta is supported by Nexos Lighting Technology, the Ministry for Tourism and Culture and the Office of the President.

For queries related to the production in Malta kindly contact Joyce Grech on joyce_grech@yahoo.co.uk or mobile number 99425594.

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