Filter theatre company explores the sounds and fury of Macbeth
in Actors and Performers, Directors, Physical and Visual Theatre, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
9th March 2015
INTERVIEW: FERDY ROBERTS and TOM HAINES
Filter theatre company’s director Ferdy Roberts, who also plays the title role, and Tom Haines, composer/musician, speak to Judi Herman about their latest touring production, Macbeth, which puts the company’s hallmark of sound and music literally centre stage as the action is led by the weird sisters, who play a range of found instruments to draw Macbeth into their story. Afterwards, Haines demonstrates his ‘gamelan’. Recorded at the Vaults, Waterloo, 12 February 2015.
Shakespeare’s language is absolutely laced with references to sound. If you follow the stories as a score, you will inevitably come up with an interesting music shape, so full of description and direction for sound and music.
