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General Macbeth (Fedja van Huêt) receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. His reign is racked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Chris Nietvelt) into realms of arrogance, madness, and death. Director Johan Simons (1946) considers Macbeth to be a study of violence. Not a psychological but a genetic one. Simons: 'Where does the story take place? Obviously not in a fairytale landscape, more likely a shooting range. It is an experiment. A conscious choice for evil, for true bloodlust, lying deep inside all of us, genetically predetermined.' Simons is intendant of the Munich Kammerspiele.
