Laying bare the hidden workings of the ‘black box’, Black M1 is a tribute to the madness and passion of the cursed play, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and an aerial homage to the superstitions, mysteries and beliefs of theatre itself. By uncovering its inner workings, it reveals theatre’s essence: the strange intensity of atmosphere, the sense of a world in suspension, the feeling of a space where the imagination may freely unfold.

Drawing us into this paradoxical space where nothing is real and yet profound truths are there to be found, Black M1 is Mélissa Von Vépy’s tenth creation. Its title refers to the M1 fire safety standard – required by all materials in the theatre that are black, and therefore, ordinarily, invisible…