It is difficult for some to imagine any production bringing anything new to Shakespeare’s oft-produced tragedy Macbeth. Just a month after the Australian Shakespeare Company’s production opened in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens, La Boite Theatre in Brisbane promises an entirely different imagining in Brisbane, helmed by three women of colour.
The first production in the company’s 100th year, the three-hander will centre on the three witches. The cast includes Aunty Roxanne McDonald (descendant of the Mandandanji, Wangan and Darumbal tribes of Central Queensland), Filipino actor Nicole Hoskins and Mel Ree, an actor of Pacific Island and Papua New Guinea heritage.
