‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/may/22/shakespeare-cannes-first-video-game-lili-macbeth-rsc

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state

The Cannes film festival isn’t typically associated with video games, but this year it’s playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio iNK Stories (creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about a photojournalist in Iran) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it’s been turning heads with its eye-catching translocation of Macbeth to modern-day Iran.