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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - It's soccer meets Shakespeare, as a comedy musical loosely based on the lives of David and Victoria Beckham is set to hit the stage in Ireland.
"MacBecks" is described by its director Ronan Smith as a "wild comedy romp that borrows from Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, as well as Cyrano de Bergerac."
The satire from Long Road Productions will feature Victoria as an ambitious and ruthless Lady MacBeth for whom her husband sacrifices his career.
Other real-life characters appearing in the play include Sir Alex Ferguson, David's former Manchester United manager, and Rebecca Loos, the soccer star's ex-assistant who claimed to have had an affair with him in 2004.
The production was penned by Gary Cooke and Malachy McKenna, who previously acted in a spoof titled "I Keano" about soccer player Roy Keane's infamous departure from the Irish World Cup squad in 2002.
"MacBecks" is slated to open January 2009 at Dublin's Olympia Theatre.
