
Theatre· Lille
Macbett
**Macbett** is Eugène Ionesco's 1972 absurdist play, a parody of Shakespeare's *Macbeth* that transforms the tragedy into a darkly comic satire about political ambition. Following Macbett's murderous rise to power after encountering two witches (one with one eye, one with one leg), Ionesco uses the familiar plot to mock tyranny and the cyclical, meaningless violence of political ambition—while als