The Royal Shakespeare Company Is Turning Macbeth Into A Neo-noir Game

Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined arsenic an interactive video crippled pinch a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed successful information by nan Royal Shakespeare Company. The game, titled Lili, is simply a “screen life thriller video game” wherever you’ll personification entree to a modern-day Lady Macbeth’s individual devices, according to a spot release.

“Players will beryllium immersed successful a stylized, neo-noir imagination of modern Iran, wherever surveillance and authoritarianism are information of regular life,” nan merchandise says. “The gameplay will characteristic a blend of live-action cinema incorrect an interactive crippled format, giving players nan chance to immerse themselves successful nan world of Lady Macbeth and make choices that powerfulness her destiny.” It sounds benignant of for illustration a type of Macbeth inspired by Sam Barlow’s interactive thrillers.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is making nan crippled successful collaboration pinch iNK Stories, a New York-based indie workplace and diligent that too made 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. It stars Zar Amir arsenic “Lady Macbeth (Lili),” per nan spot release.

Lili is group to merchandise “later successful 2025.”