Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence Drops EP Ahead of Edinburgh Fringe
Fresh off a smash-hit award-winning season and ahead of lighting up Edinburgh Fringe, Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence releases a new EP. Giving audiences a teaser of the full match, this first quarter presents the opening hit power numbers that set up play. Seeing Lady Macbeth’s ambition unfold in the savage world of high school netball, this all-female musical brings court-side chaos and full-contact ambition to life.
Shakespeare’s literary classic meets its match as fierce teenage girls take on the cautionary tale through the cutthroat world of competitive netball. Dedicated player Mac Beth has her sights set on Team Captain, but when Coach Duncan champions Chloe Macduff queen of the court, it’s all to play for from the first centre pass until the final whistle blows.
Introducing the Dunsinane Hell-Hounds, Pick Your Player turns Macbeth’s prophecy into a chant-led war cry worthy of a win. Setting the stakes and welcoming Crash Theatre Company’s fierce female players onto the court with an explosive synth-pop sharper than a wing defence’s elbow, this first track picks Lady Macbeth up after her downfall and brings her teammates into action.
Track number 2 Thunder, Lightning, Rain bewitches audiences as all-powerful girl group The Dagger Divas step onto court and into the spotlight. Presenting Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence’s most spellbinding number, Crash Theatre Company pull lines from Macbeth’s original witches’ manipulation and give them a dark, pop glow-up. As The Dagger Divas seduce both Mac and the audience into ambition-fuelled delusion, players take their position.
Offering a revenge anthem like no other, Trap a Rat follows Chloe Macduff – this most popular girl in school is not letting her defeat slide quietly. This energetic jungle-beat number sets the tension as toil and trouble bubbles amongst the team. Macduff is coming for Mac with her nails unfiled and a last quarter play that will seal the fate of the game.
Georgie Black Founder and Creative Director of House of Oz comments Here at House of Oz it was a no brainer to award LMPWD our 2025 Purse Prize – the show had me at ‘hello’. That title says it all – the Scottish play, plus competitive netball, plus girl power? Too good! No wonder they sold out a week before they even got on a plane to Adelaide. And OMG – the soundtrack! I challenge anyone not to be singing those stonking songs in their sleep – I certainly do!
Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence EP Album is available to listen HERE.
Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence is part of the House of Oz Edinburgh 2025 season which also includes You’re An Instrument from The Sonicrats, The Listies: Make Some Noise from The Listies, FLICK from Mad Nun Productions, Ten Thousand Hours from Gravity & Other Myths, TRIPTYCH Redux by Lewis Major Projects, Orpheus and Eurydice by Circa (at the Edinburgh International Festival) and Skinny by Michelle Pearson.
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