RAWS online talk with Al Seed productions

 THRICE a performance  based on  Shakespeare’s  Macbeth, Al seed is joining RAWS to discuss this production. Thrice is based on Macbeth But told  through movement, dance and original music. The performance. Is carried by a chorus of nine women. The production opens on the 16th of October at the Tramway in Glasgow. And then in Aberdeen.  on the 19th of October. Dundee on the 21st of October and Edinburgh on the 23rd and 24th of October.

Macbeth is dead. Who will now heal the land?

The world at the conclusion of Macbeth is one steeped in fear; where the distinction between truth and delusion has buckled; where tyranny and violence thrive. This is where Thrice begins.

Both a response to Shakespeare’s play and to our present moment, Thrice places nine women – three trios – in the ruins of the story. They know every word that has been spoken, every action taken. They remain after the bloodshed, asking what it might mean to live on in the shadow of ruin.

Embracing poetry, musicality and spectacle, Thrice stages an imaginative event of images, movement, dance, text, and original music. Text from Macbeth, words once spoken by soldiers and tyrants – are absorbed and transformed by the figures who haunt the play’s edges: the witches. In doing so, Thrice seeks to challenge the legacy of persecution attached to the word ‘witch’, asking us to listen differently, and enacting new forms of care and dignity.

“Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
And thrice again, to make up nine.”