Synetic Theater has opened its season with what it is calling its Speak No More Silent Shakespeare Festival, in which “Macbeth” is the first offering. It’s an unconventional telling of the familiar tale of the Scottish general who lets himself believe that he is almost mystically fated to be king. There is plenty of violence in this “Macbeth.” Although the play is set in a vaguely medieval-looking castle with great metal plates held in place with huge metal studs, director Paata Tsikurishvili gives the nod to eternal violence. In addition to hand-to-hand battles, knife fights, stabbings and stranglings, there are guns and a significant number of deaths by shooting.

As the body count grows, the civil war ends and the rebel Cawdor is executed, three dark figures emerge from the earth and predict that Macbeth will have Cawdor’s title. Philip Fletcher, Mary Werntz and Sarah Taurchini, dressed in black, their faces painted white, appear again and again as the super-spooky Witches,continual reminders of the witchcraft that haunts Macbeth.