by A flood from Macbeths will meet the Edinburgh Festival this month, which gives Shakespeare’s Scottish game a new spin. There is Macbeth: The musical, accompanied by pop classics, and Macbeth for Bairns, a sensory children’s version with bubbles. But most of the left field has to be a award -winning show that has conquered the Australian margin in the storm.
How Mashups go, Lady Macbeth played nothing, if not, if not as a high wire. It is a black comedy musical that takes place on a netball square and contains a team of seven of teen players, one of which, Mac Beth, is a Lady M of the past few days that the ambitions of the netball champion of 12th grade is. The witches are a girls’ band called Dago Divas, which they use with all the necessary means in the direction of their destination.
The production of Crash Theater Co was created and performed by a purely female creative team. He made his debut at the Perth Fringe Festival in 2024 and arrives in Scotland as part of the season of the House of Oz. It was compared to both six The Musical, which started in Edinburgh Fringe, and with the Australian musical Fangirls, which had its premiere London last year. His writer Courtney McManus, who is also a co-lyricist and plays the role of the team’s coach, works as an English teacher at an Australian school. She had noticed a lack of interest in Shakespeare among the students and started to encourage young people to combine the tragedy.
“In the English departments in which I have worked, these texts are on the shelves that dust have on them … When I said to my students, who is Shakespeare?” You would probably not be able to tell you because it is simply not so relevant to you.
Macbeth has always been her favorite game in Shakespeare, but her family has more passion for sport. “So it was about ‘how can I have people invested in Shakespeare?” As soon as she had the idea to put it in the world of netball, she knew that it had to be a musical, with bass, synthesizers and sportiness. BEC Price has composed its electro-pop score and the texts (she also leads the show) with influences from Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue and Charli XCX but with additional sporting elements. Price tried the sound of Netball coaches on a place for one of the main songs of the show and select their player.
“Synthesizers are my favorite instruments all over the world because they are so layered,” says Price. “When the girls came to me to write the music, I thought I would make it a dance album and that was exactly what they wanted … The mood was that we wanted to make Shakespeare really cool and in the club … flashing lights and quick music with girls who turned around.”
The topics of the piece turned perfectly into the adrenaline-filled world of competitive netball, thinks McManus and served as a way to explore young ambition, rivalry and teamwork. “The way the characters were written by me reflects my experiences with young people when they have their worst moments and if they also have their best.” It is important that Mac Beth receives a redeeming sheet, explains McManus: “Mac Beth still feels the fault, she still suffers from the consequences of her actions, but she has a way to redemption.”
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The core message of the show is about the collective power of the team and the girls and not for the individual strength that Mac Beth longs. “We can take this message into the groups of women who surround us: we don’t have to be the biggest and the best. We only have to be supportive and supported.”
Price worked as a youth mentor and headed camps for the mental health of young girls. “I was really passionate about the word” Herrisch “, which is never used to describe a man. So what is huge? What is ambitious? Let us put it on a stage and go wrong, but in the end this girl still deserves love and part of the team.”
