RUDY PERCIVAL 

Macbeth with Michelin stars. Maison Mac is a deliciously dark new musical set in the cut-throat world of fine dining. With a sharply contemporary script and a score that blends pop with musical theatre, Shakespeare’s classic becomes a cancel culture thriller about two twenty-somethings who sacrifice everything to get to the top. Will anyone make it out unscathed? Can anyone stand the heat of the kitchen?

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Like the play it’s based on, this is a musical about the white-hot heat of ambition and the lust for power. Dramatic, fast-paced and joyously pop-y, it is also about gender, gender-queerness, and the ways people navigate their identities in the ferociously masculine world of professional kitchens. We want to give voice to LGBTQIA+ people from different generations in a story full of queer characters that is not directly about queerness.

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An important context for this adaption is the rise of cancel culture. In Maison Mac, we have traded in daggers for DMs and denunciations. This transposition of Shakespeare’s classic offers us a chance to think about the moral complexities of this new culture, in a story where all characters are deeply flawed and there is no clear villain.