Baboon Macbeth Opera?

09:55 mareku 0 Comments

Alexander McCall Smith wrote (probably...) the first opera about baboons. In his "The Okavango Macbeth"  the Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth characters are played by baboons. Not so strange as it seems at first glance because in a troupe of baboons there could be an ambitious female baboon who wants her mate to be more of an alpha male than he is, which is really the story of Macbeth...
See the preproduction of the Botswana performance video here

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