Macbeth

Theatre 10€

Sunday 27 September · until 31 Oct

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After three years closed for renovation, the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II reopens with Macbeth — the very play on stage on the night of the 1964 fire — in a production by Pedro Penim that weaves the historic blaze together with the ambition consuming the protagonists.

Synopsis After three years closed for renovation, the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II reopens its doors, and it does so with irresistible boldness and irony. The first play to go up on stage will be Macbeth, the same one that was on stage on that fateful night of 2 December 1964, when a powerful fire left the theatre in ruins, fuelling the legends, superstitions and curses that have always surrounded this Shakespeare tragedy. Macbeth returns to the Sala Garrett to defy fate and combine haunting and future, in what will be the inaugural act of a building reclaiming its history, and of a national theatre that seeks to assert itself as a navigator of a frontier where memory echoes and what is yet to come can be glimpsed. The historic destructive fire and the ambition that consumes the pair of protagonists intertwine on stage, in a contemporary approach that reflects on memory and rebirth, merging reality and illusion, and echoing the unsettling question: is the theatre truly free of its destiny? Between ashes and new foundations, Macbeth turns the stage into a battlefield where past and future confront each other, making the reopening of the D. Maria II a true act of exorcism and celebration. Artistic credits text William Shakespeare, direction and translation Pedro Penim, cast Ana Coimbra, Ana Tang, Bárbara Branco, Bernardo de Lacerda, Hugo Van Der Ding, João Grosso, José Neves, José Raposo, June João, Sandro Feliciano, Stela, Vítor Silva Costa, set design Joana Sousa, costumes BÉHEN (Joana Duarte), composition, sound design and lighting design Filipe Baptista, light Daniel Worm stage management Bárbara Barradas, assistant director Joana Brito Silva, production Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, photography ©Humberto Mouco presentation of the Ageas Revelation Prize at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II on 23 September, before the show Prices Stalls - 18€ 1st Balcony - 14€ 2nd Balcony - 10€ 1st Order Boxes - 10€ 2nd Order Boxes - 10€ Discounts Families, Groups (+10 people), Young people (up to 30), People with specific needs, Unemployed, Show professionals, Seniors (+65)