Note From Ms. Marie France Ionesco

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History of Macbett

Note From the Director

We live through dangerous, treacherous time. We are bombarded with empty rhetoric, lies and threats. Shakespeare wrote about all of this, four hundred years ago. Then, genius of Eugene Ionesco revisited these same issues during the cold war era with his Macbett.

He took Shakespeare’s original and explained to us that, since Shakespeare’s times, we did not move one single step ahead. Quite au contraire, we stepped back.

Today, more than thirty years later, it is my feeling that we are stepping even further back. Ionesco's words never sounded so terrifying, and famous Shakespeare’s monologues from Macbeth are as actual and stunning as ever. Very few contemporary plays can tell us this much about ourselves as these two classics can.

We tried to merge these two and the result will play out in front of you tonight. We stepped more into Ionesco's tragic side, because we believe that our times require that.

Our show would never be possible without understanding from Ms. Marie France Ionesco. We are extremely grateful for that.

Enjoy the show.

Neno Pervan

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