“Growing up, I only recall learning a few words here and there,” she says. “My parents didn’t speak the language in our household fluently. Words like balai and aliwah — ‘pay attention!’ or ‘watch out ...

Of all the ways to keep alive an ancient language, only spoken by a few hundred people, staging a Shakespearian play is not an obvious one. Hecate is the play Macbeth, translated and performed in ...

It lies in the incredible ambition — so big it raises anxiety in even the most supportive viewer — to return an indigenous nation’s language to centre stage in the cultural life of a state. To perform ...

takes have come to feel more rare than “creative” ones. Voodoo Macbeth’s most significant shift (Welles’s all-black cast has been nixed) is the beefing up of the role of Hecate (William Hayes) into ...