BETH 2022

“In the hand of this Director, Madeleine Diggins, Shakespeare’s tragedy is subverted into a stunning black comedy about mother-daughter relationships, female empowerment, and filicide. It reveals a startling play about ambition, and existential madness (or, a divided self). The final image of our show-mum surrounded by the victims of her ambition born of a culture obsessed with status, power and greed is chiling…There is artistic abundance in this dream. Don’t wake me up!” Kate Gaul in the 2022 Shakespeare Memorial Lecture, USYD.

'BETH is a camp and murderous comedy adapted from Shakespeare’s Macbeth by NIDA Writing alumna Sophie Davis, with Madeleine Diggins, and Barbara B Taylor. This world premiere is directed by Madeleine Diggins with designs by Amy Jackson'

The Festival of Emerging Artists, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, 2022

DSM: India Lively

PSM: Bernadett Lőrincz

Costume Supervisor: Lily Mateljan

LX Designer- Jordan Jeckells

SX Designer- Joel Montgomery

Props maker- Sophie Howard

Head electrician - Ryan Mcdonald

Voice Coach - Jack Starkey-Gill

Fight choreographer- Gavin Robbins

Head HMUA: Joshan Ramadani

MUAs: Ella Colhoun, Lachlan Masters, Eliza Young

Technical crew: Corey Blunden, Julian Dunne, Ashleigh Elms, Alice Lloyd, Declan Lodge

With:

Julie Bettens , Raechyl French, Dominique Purdue, Madeleine Wighton, Eamon Connolly, Angela Johnston, Sayuri Narroway, Harry Winsome, Hannah Stewart

Photos by Phil Erbacher, Amy Jackson and NIDA