Macbeth

Together with his wife, he sets a fateful series of events in motion. Friends and enemies alike are killed off as the kingdom groans under Macbeth's bloody rule - until the last part of the prophecy is fulfilled. The forest of Birnam moves on the castle and, under the guidance of the moon goddess Hekate, a new king re-establishes the old order.
In one of his late tragedies, Shakespeare is drawn to the infinitely dark: the anarchic playfulness of the witches leads to a bloody abyss. Despite the emergence of new possibilities, the established political system prevails in the end.
Director Roger Vontobel, well known to audiences in the Ruhr area because of his acclaimed productions at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, stages a Macbeth with Werner Wölbern in the leading role. In Elisabeth Bronfen’s adaptation, the witches become formative forces of the play as well as figures of upheaval and revolution.