Macbeth is a dark drama with the themes of ambition, fate, deception and treachery. It is about a series of murders including that of a Scottish king, Duncan, initiated by main character, Macbeth, and his wife, Lady Macbeth.“We will be performing Macbeth at Fort Hamilton at the gun carriage,” said John Zuill, the director. “Everything looks good. We are doing it in a very narrow defined area, in the stone work which will increase the viability of it. It will be at the end of September so hopefully the weather will be a little cooler.”Last year BMDS performed one of Shakespeare’s comedies ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at Victoria Park. Mr Zuill said Macbeth was one of Shakespeare’s easier plays to understand.“The language in Shakespeare’s tragedies tends to be fairly straight forward,” Mr Zuill said. “He tends to use metaphors and images that are natural. In comparison, the comedies tend to have a lot of images and references that have to do with people in Shakespeare’s time, so a lot of the jokes are lost. Mind you, Shakespeare’s comedies can be done.”He said the play was about how society sometimes asks its members to do things that are not morally right, for the greater good of the community.“Society encourages you to be ambitious and better yourself, but it also sometimes asks you to kill other people or to push them down or to push them out of the way,” said Mr Zuill. “And then society likes you to abide by its rules, but very often the rules aren’t morally defensible.“You have to rely on your sense of the connection you have to other people. Macbeth decides he can sacrifice the community part. He lives from a war perspective. He kills people regularly for the king. There is only a slight shift to killing people for himself. What happens to you when you are no longer connected to the community?”Lead characters include Macbeth performed by Danjou Anderson, Tracey Harney as Lady Macbeth and David Sinclair Minors as Banquo. The play will include four sword fights including two assassinations, with swords borrowed from a school fencing programme.“There are a lot of Bermudians in it who have never jumped at Shakespeare before,” said Mr Zuill. “I think Bermudians are such a tight little community and I think people are very verbal and talkie. Shakespeare is extremely loquacious, and many Bermudians understand that. They understand that something has to be described accurately and there is a style to speak to it. In other places people don’t get the naturalness of that.”Macbeth will be performed at Fort Hamilton from September 20 to 29 at 8pm with no performance on September 24. Tickets are $25 available at Daylesford Theatre Box Office. The members box office will be open September 11 and 12 from 5.30pm to 7pm and the public box office from September 13 to 19 from 5.30pm to 7pm and at the gate one hour before 8pm curtain or online at www.bmds.bm from September 13 to 19. Seating is on a first come, first served basis on bleachers. The audience is encouraged to bring a blanket or compact lawn chair. There will be a bar with wine, beer and sodas before the show and at intermission.For the full cast list or further information see www.bmds.bm.