ABSTRACT
Between 1990 and 2012 there have been 23 stage productions of Macbeth in Hungarian theatres. Shakespeare’s tragedy has thus been continuously in the repertoire of Hungarian theatres after the changing of the political system, taken up by a number of prominent directors in almost all of the permanent repertory theatres. In an ingeniously directed scene, Lady Macbeth whispers the cauldron-song and the words of reassurance, which originally belong to the second prophecy of the Witches, as a lullaby into the ears of an exhausted and mentally self-tormented Macbeth. The generic political overcoding of double talk was certainly over, but the great productions on the Hungarian stages after 1989 bear the traces of the previous period, and had to attempt the renewal of the representational techniques and themes of the Hungarian theatre while continuing the heritage of the former masters.
