My Macbeth
And the ghost of lone and level sand that’s stretched far away boundless and bareDuration of the production:
70 min, without break
Year of the premiere:
December 19, 2025
Dossier:
Mehdi Agahikeshe
Dramaturge
Ali Rafati
Lighting Designer
Mehrdad Motejalli
Costum Designer
Maryam Nourmohammadi
Performers
Sepehr Tehranchi
Ava Sharifi Khorasani
Esmaeeil Kamali Dehghan
Ali Asadi
Erfan Pishro
Ayda Babalkhani
Maedeh Ali Akbari
Kiana Hajitaleb
The starting point of this project emerged in the aftermath of the Woman-Life-Freedom movement. Witnessing women and other marginalised individuals confront systems of authority led us to reconsider the figure of the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Historically, those accused of witchcraft were often women whose beliefs, knowledge, or ways of living challenged dominant structures of power. Inspired by this parallel, we approached the witches not as evil beings but as women of society who have grown tired of corruption, violence, and political indifference.
This reinterpretation led us to a central question: what happens when those who seek change place their hopes in a new ruler? In our adaptation, the witches desire justice and transformation. They encourage Macbeth to overthrow Duncan because they believe another world is possible beyond the failures of the existing regime. However, the project gradually reveals that replacing a ruler does not necessarily transform the structures that produce oppression. Macbeth's rise demonstrates how power itself can corrupt, regardless of the intentions that originally justified political change.
Rather than presenting a simple opposition between good and evil, the performance investigates the tragic repetition of political history. The witches' hopes are genuine, yet the revolution they imagine ultimately reproduces the same violence it sought to overcome. Through this perspective, the performance explores the relationship between power, memory, and collective disappointment. It asks whether meaningful change can be achieved merely by replacing individuals at the top of the hierarchy, or whether the cycle of oppression continues as long as the structures of power remain intact.