Lady M.

A supporting role from Macbeth gets the lead in which she is entitled to!

Scotland is at war. Bloody battles are underway and while the maid drags waste barrels on her back across the courtyard, the great war heroes, Macbeth and Banquo, are in an open field were three witches predict that Macbeth will be king and Banquo will raise kings. The noble warriors will be greeted as victors of the castle and she, the maid, is admiring how perfectly she made the bed for King Duncan. And while the murder of King Duncan that night, gets Macbeth on the throne and set up a promotion for her, she doesn’t agree on the part that Shakespeare has given her.

Shakespeare has wronged her. Only in the fifth act he puts her on and gives her fifteen sentences. That's it! And this while the new-fangled lady-in-waiting is the one who knows all the distasteful actions that took place at the time of Macbeth. Shakespeare completely erased her from the story. ‘While my role was of greater value’. Now the stage is hers and she divulges all the gruesome details Shakespeare neglected to mention.

Lady M. is not about the kings and queens, but about the ordinary man, the supporting players who just do their job without being noticed. "I do this for all the bit parts". Annemarie de Bruijn transformed one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies into a true comedy. And so everything appears slightly different than we always understood from the great playwright himself.