In this reimagined Macbeth, ambition roars on two wheels as both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by men, their masculinity sharpened and distorted by the constant presence of a motorbike that becomes the play’s dominant symbol. The bike is not just a prop but a living extension of desire – its engine growling like Macbeth’s restless thoughts, its speed mirroring the headlong rush toward power and ruin. Shared between the two male performers, the motorbike erases conventional gender boundaries, turning Lady Macbeth’s manipulation into a performance of dominance learned, borrowed, and aggressively enacted. As they ride, circle, and rev the machine, the stage fills with noise, motion, and menace, suggesting that ambition is mechanical, fuel-driven, and impossible to stop once set in motion. In this stark, kinetic version, Shakespeare’s tragedy becomes a brutal meditation on how power, when stripped of traditional identities, still intoxicates, corrodes, and ultimately crashes – leaving only silence where the engine once screamed.

Director

Gilles Chuyen is a dancer, actor, and choreographer. He is trained in France in Ballet, Modern Jazz, and contemporary dance styles. He has been working with various dance forms such as Dance-theatre, Ballet, Modern Jazz, Contemporary, Dance meditation, Ballroom dances, and also Indian forms such as Kathak, Chhau, and Bollywood dance style.

Director’s Note

The actor in me always starts from the body as my original training is dance. Similarly, as a director, my starting point and emphasis is always the body and bodies emoting in space. This dialogue of inner and outer spaces can be very rich in the context of this revisited Macbeth.

The inner chatter magnified and exposed by the outer noise

The twisted inner thoughts creating an outer labyrinth of fear and madness

The inner masks and fractured psyche manifesting as invisible ghosts of the past.

Group  

Maison de bose is a place for training on professional skills for creative field. It runs an acting course particularly aimed at creating actors for film, television and theatre industry. It imparts quality education and  focussed personalised traiing. The course focuses on training of body, voice, speech techniques and improvisation methods. We have performed  “faust recycle” at delhi, bombay, bihar “fleish” in cologne and bochum in germany. McBike tech run in delhi and calcutta. “Raktakalyan” in Delhi, and The Widowed Pimp in Delhi and more.