The Macbeth Sessions

2021–22 — San Marino, Senigallia — Real-time digital scenography, Public Performance, Final project

The project The Macbeth Sessions, realised by the students of the Digital Experience Lab, directed by Daniele Tabellini and Irene Trotta, at UNI.RSM.DESIGN, consists of an open source software tool for real-time visual creation.

Thanks to a generative and expressive approach, The Macbeth Sessions makes it possible to compose extemporaneous visual stories, live, during the theatrical performance, to accompany the text and acting. The project was created to bring to life the digital scenography of Shakespeare's Macbeth, staged by the classical theatre workshop of the Liceo Perticari in Senigallia, at the Teatro La Fenice in June 2022.

The Macbeth Sessions make visible the four invisible themes of the tragedy: magic, intimacy, madness and violence. The four softwares created (green magic, blue intimacy, yellow madness and red violence) are contained in the p5-macbeth-sessions tool, an open source tool perfected during the Lab and released under an open licence on GitHub, programmed with the p5.js and matter.js frameworks, which can be controlled during the performance via a MIDI interface and a live control dashboard app on the iPad.

Art director: Daniele Tabellini
Assistant: Irene Trotta
Production: UNI.RSM.DESIGN
Thanks: Massimo Brignoni, Silvia Gasparotto, Erika Gabbani
Students: Irene Bacherotti, Chiara Boffa, Alessia Ciccone, Matteo Cirillo, Alessia Fallarino, Lucrezia Ghinassi, Chiara Guiducci, Andrea Ingrando, Massimiliano Iob, Barbara Merlino, Sofia Montanari, Stefania Papa, Salvo Pitingaro, Alessandro Ricciardo, Arianna Terenzi, Michele Tunzi
Director: Giorgio Sebastianelli
Choreographer: Paola Piccioni
Production: Liceo Perticari, Senigallia