Lady Macbeth
Exploring Shakespeare's Scottish Play through the journey of Lady Macbeth - from aspirational seaker of agency to sidelined, powerless and suicidal in the chaos following her husband's rise to power.
Reviews:
The score itself is a masterful work. The textures and the tones offered rich and electrifying moments. Under the baton of superb Koen Kessel, Salem’s score is intensely punctuated with electronic and classical tones. It is the foundation of the ballet, upon which Pickett masterfully shapes her work.
The Salem score is an absolute cracker of brooding energy — drums and blaring brass at times, a troubled and oppressive wall of near silence at others, as when murder is afoot. It is brilliant and well delivered by the Dutch Ballet Orchestra under the baton of Koen Kessels.
Interview with Clare Varney:
Peter Salem: “They were only meant to kill the bloody King!”
