RSC collaborates on Lady Macbeth-inspired video game
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced a new collaboration to create a video game inspired by Macbeth and set in contemporary Iran.
The RSC is working with New York-based studio iNK Stories to create Lilli, which puts Lady Macbeth “front and centre”.
The game, the RSC’s first foray into this field, will star Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir as Lady Macbeth (Lilli).
The RSC says the game will feature live-action cinema within an interactive format, set in a “stylised, neo-noir vision of modern Iran, where surveillance and authoritarianism are part of daily life”.
It gives players access to Lady Macbeth’s personal devices, while the play’s witches are reimagined as hackers.
The RSC’s co-artistic directors, Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey, said that Lilli creates “similar effects for audiences” as the “exhilarating” sudden opening of the play Macbeth amid thunder and lightning.
They added that centring the story around Lady Macbeth rather than her husband was “radical and transformative”.
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