Royal Shakespeare Company reimagines Macbeth for video game users

A video crippled based connected William Shakespeare’s Macbeth volition people a archetypal for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) successful adapting the British playwright’s classical enactment for modern audiences.

Lili, which is presently successful improvement and slated for merchandise aboriginal this year, stars 2022 Cannes champion histrion victor Zar Amir Ebrahimi arsenic Lady Macbeth (Lili) successful the communicative which mixes witchcraft, prophecy, and murder.

The RSC person collaborated with US crippled workplace and steadfast Ink Stories to make the interactive game, acceptable successful a “stylised, neo-noir imaginativeness of modern Iran, wherever surveillance and authoritarianism are portion of regular life”.

Amir Ebrahimi, who won the Cannes prize for her relation successful Holy Spider, is said to person drawn from her lived acquisition arsenic an Iranian pistillate successful exile, who confronted authoritarian gendered oppression.

The crippled is billed arsenic blending “live-action cinema wrong an interactive crippled format, giving players the accidental to immerse themselves successful the satellite of Lady Macbeth and marque choices that power her destiny”.

“Macbeth’s witches are reimagined arsenic hackers, with surveillance cameras and cyber-infiltration putting the subordinate astatine the bosom of the communicative and giving them a unsocial position into the satellite of the play.

“This modern twist connected the Macbeth communicative explores themes of technological domination, the manipulation of information, and organization violence, reflecting the acheronian realities of inequities successful our integer age,” a merchandise stated.

Sarah Ellis, the RSC’s manager of originative innovation, told the PA quality bureau that she is “delighted” to beryllium adapting the play to “reach gamers and audiences of the future”.

We are excited to bring Shakespeare's epic stories onto caller platforms for america truthful his relevance tin proceed to resonate for planetary audience.

Sarah Ellis, RSC manager of originative innovation

“The RSC reimages Shakespeare’s enactment each time and to beryllium connected to this facet of the satellite is peculiarly resonate now.

“Over the past fewer years, we’ve seen the mode radical devour civilization has changed and we are present successful a hybrid age.

“As Shakespeare has expanded connected our stages, our screens, our schools, we person besides seen homes alteration into taste spaces and the continued acceleration towards a digitally babelike satellite including the assemblage of gaming.

“We are excited to bring Shakespeare’s epic stories onto caller platforms for america truthful his relevance tin proceed to resonate for planetary audience.”