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THE TIGER LILLIES IN A MACBETH SONG

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La Perla 29
Spain

At the Klaipėda Drama Theatre Grand Hall
1:50 (without intermission)

Premiere 2025

Based on William Shakespeare
Director, Set Designer Oriol Broggi
Original songs Martyn Jacques
Costume Designer Berta Riera
Light Designer Pep Barcons
Sound Designer Damien Bazin
Video Francesc Isern
Accompaniment in the text: Albert Reverendo, Andrew Tarbet, Montse Vellvehí
Stage Manager Marc Serra
Assistant Directors: Montse Vellvehí, Albert Reverendo
A production of “La Perla 29”

“The Tiger Lillies”: Martyn Jacques, Budi Butenop, Adrian Stout
Cast: Màrcia Cisteró, Stefán Halldórsson, Andrew Tarbet

Performance 12+

This performance contains theatrical smoke (smoke machines)

Performance in English with Lithuanian surtitles (translated into Lithuanian by Evelina Venckutė)

“La Perla 29” and the London-based trio “The Tiger Lillies” join forces to tell the tragic story of Macbeth. This version results in a powerful artistic display that takes audiences on an extraordinary journey, guided by new live songs by  “The Tiger Lillies” and three performers from “La Perla 29”.

Three witches sing to Macbeth, a power too great for a human being. “The Tiger Lillies” and “La Perla 29” take us to the heart of this story in a show-concert that blends the live music of the London trio with the aesthetics of the Catalan company. Guided by accordions, ukuleles, brand-new songs, emotional ballads, and three great actors, this special company creates a new way to tell this impactful story that speaks of power and war, guilt, blood-stained hands, death, spells, dark nights, fog, and the indelible memory of crimes committed by excessive ambition.

Poor Macbeth, deluded, kills the king to place the crown upon his head. Three witches promise him power, and he enters the fatal labyrinth of ambition. The serpentine tongue of Lady Macbeth and the paranoia of the throne drive him to commit the most despicable crimes, and the gears of war and fear turn without anyone being able to stop them. Ah, poor tyrant, as he faces his guilty conscience every evening of the longest and darkest night. What a childish man, the despot, who kills and kills without knowing how to love. What ray of dawn can pierce these blood-soaked clouds? Where has freedom gone? “The Tiger Lillies” sing to Macbeth, a power too great for a human soul.

 

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About The Director

Holding a degree in dramaturgy and stage direction from the Theatre Institute, Oriol Broggi has also studied image and sound, alongside other fields of the performing arts. He served as the director of the Centre d’Arts Escèniques de Terrassa from 2003 to 2006. He co-founded La Perla 29 in 2002, along with the management team, and became its artistic director. In 2012, he received the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona for the productions “Natale in Casa Cupiello” and “Luces de Bohemia”, as well as for the management of the Nau de Llevant at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, the company’s regular home (Teatre La Biblioteca). He has received several Butaca Awards for the productions “L’Orfe del clan dels Zhao”, “Incendis”, “Hamlet”, and “Antigona”. In 2018, he inaugurated the Grec Festival with “El poema de Gilgamesh, rei d’Uruk”, and in the same year directed “La Flauta Màgica” at the Castell de Peralada Festival. Among the productions he has directed are “Luces de Bohemia” (Ramon María del Valle-Inclán, 2011), “Una giornata particolare” (based on the film by Ettore Scola, 2015), “Bodas de Sangre” (Federico García Lorca, 2018), “Boscos” (Wajdi Mouawad, 2017), “Un obús al cor” (Wajdi Mouawad, 2016), “Cels” (Wajdi Mouawad, 2014), “Incendis” (Wajdi Mouawad, 2012 and 2015), “Assedegats” (Wajdi Mouawad and Benoît Vermeulen, 2021), “Hamlet Aribau” (William Shakespeare, 2021), and “28 i mig” (original creation, 2013; remounted at Théâtre La Colline in Paris, 2022) and many others.

About the musical group

THE TIGER LILLIES
British trio formed in 1989 by Martyn Jacques. Their music—often described as “death oompah”—blends dark cabaret, punk and operatic elements. The band is known for highly theatrical performances exploring macabre, melancholic and darkly comic themes.

Recent highlights include the 2025 album *Serenade from the Sewer* (currently touring worldwide) and *The Tiger Lillies in a Macbeth Song* with La Perla 29 (Critics’ Award, Catalonia). In 2026, they premiere *Bacchae* (dir. Javor Gardev) at Athens Epidaurus Festival.

With 40+ albums, Olivier Awards (*Shockheaded Peter*) and a Grammy nomination (*The Gorey End*), The Tiger Lillies are one of the most distinctive acts in contemporary performance.

BAND MEMBERS
Martyn Jacques — Vocals, Accordion, Piano, Guitar
Adrian Stout — Double Bass, Musical Saw, Theremin, Vocals
Budi Butenop — Drums

SELECTED QUOTES
“One of the most unique and subversive acts in contemporary performance.” The New York Times
“This delicious dark cabaret is Kurt Weill as scripted by Aleister Crowley… Phenomenal.” — The Guardian
“Brilliantly twisted.” — The Guardian
“A journey into wild emotion… bizarre beauty.” — Evening Standard
“There is nothing else like them — completely peerless.” — Alex Kapranos
“Just brilliant and utterly fantastic!!” — Marc Almond

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