[working titles]: Lady M

Haunted by the loss of her child - “I have given suck, and know how tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me” - Lady M turns her grief into ruthless ambition. She calls upon the witches and drives her husband toward M**der, seizing the crown for them both. As their reign descends into tyranny, Lady M is tormented by visions of her dead child and the blood she cannot wash away. Her unraveling peaks in a sleepwalking aria as she drifts into her child’s nursery. Grief and guilt overtake her - the cost of her ambition.

All of the text in this production comes directly from Shakespeare - what changes is the lens. By leaning into a detail that’s often brushed past - Lady M’s grief as a mother who has lost a child - her words ring with new resonance, and we see how ambition and loss are bound together in her undoing.

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