Macbeth: Shakespeare's famous tragedy at the Comédie-Française

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and translated from English by Yves de Bonnefoy, returns to the Comédie-Française from January 24 to May 11, 2025. Shakespeare 's famous tragedy, set inmedieval Scotland, romanticizes the reign of Macbeth.

Macbeth was King of Scotland from 1040 until his death in 1507. Macbeth 's reign inspired the world of literature and the 7th art. William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth between 1599 and 1606, publishing it only a few years later, in 1623. The play has been revived over the centuries, notably by David Garrick in 1744, and David Greig even imagined a sequel to the play in 2010 with Dunsinane . Today, the play returns to the Comédie-Française in a staging by Silvia Costa, who is also responsible for the set design.

Silvia Costa returns to the Comédie-Française afterAnnie Ernaux 's Mémoire de fille in 2023. A 2006 graduate of Visual Arts and Theater at Venice's IUAV University, Silvia Costa now presents her plays at Italian and international festivals. She makes her operatic debut in 2019 with Claude Vivier's Hiérophanie. Since 2020, she has been part of the artistic ensemble of the Comédie de Valence in the Drôme region of France. In 2022, Silvia Costa was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.

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Macbeth was added to the Répertoire in 1985, representing all the plays that could be performed in the Salle Richelieu at the Comédie-Française. Silvia Costa 's staging focuses on the prediction made by three witches about General Macbeth's future. Obsessed by this prediction, Macbeth kills King Duncan, along with his wife. The couple find themselves in a spiral of guilt, and the entire play gives rise to a confusion of values between good and evil.

9 members of the Troupe de la Comédie-Française are on stage: Alain Lenglet, Julie Sicard, Pierre-Louis Calixte, Suliane Brahim, Jennifer Decker, Julien Frison, Noam Morgensztern, Birane Bia and Clément Bresson .Macbeth can be seen at the Salle Richelieu at the Comédie-Française from January 24 to May 11, 2025.