⭐ CATEGORY IS – MACBETH – WORLD PREMIERE ANNOUNCED ⭐
The world premiere of TuckShop’s new show CATEGORY IS – MACBETH has been announced.
TuckShop, the UK’s only specialist production company devoted to all things drag, are taking a step in a new direction with CATEGORY IS – MACBETH, an all-drag hard-hitting, fierce, and gritty take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in its original text. The production will open at the Emerald Theatre this April.
The all-star cast, directed by TuckShop’s Creative Director Chris Clegg, will include Drag Race UK Season 5 winner Ginger Johnson as Macbeth and Drag Race UK Season 6 winner Kyran Thrax as Lady Macbeth.
Also starring Yshee Black, Cyro and Daniel Jacobs aka Vinegar Strokes as The Three Witches, with Anna Phylactic as Banquo, Richard Energy as King Duncan and Victoria Scone as Macduff.
Further cast and full creative team to be announced.
In the shadows of Soho’s backrooms and battered gay bars, ambition stalks the dancefloor.
CATEGORY IS – MACBETH reimagines one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedies in a city where being gay is an act of rebellion and drag is a form of survival. Starring a cast of ferocious drag performers, this is an all-new Macbeth born under strobe lights and police sirens, where prophecy comes whispered over eyeliner mirrors and power is seized in heels sharp enough to kill.
In a world where masculinity is policed, queerness is criminalised… the price of visibility is everything. Riots rage outside. Inside, the music of 80’s Britain – Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys – pulses through the night. Paranoia spirals, loyalty fractures, and desire curdles into violence. Wigs slip. Crowns are stolen, and blood is impossible to wash out under club lighting.
Dark, defiant, and drenched in 80s synth, CATEGORY IS – MACBETH is a fabulous tragedy about power, persecution, and what it means to survive.
CATEGORY IS – MACBETH will play the Emerald Theatre, London, running from 24th April – 28th May 2026, with tickets on sale now.
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Tickets & more info – https://categoryis.co.uk/
