Maxine Peake for Manchester International Festival 28 February 2013 Last updated at 13:13 Actors Maxine Peake and Willem Dafoe and artist Tracey Emin have been named on the line-up for this year's Manchester International Festival. They will join Sir Kenneth Branagh, Massive Attack and The xx, who had already been announced for the event. The festival, which takes place in July, specialises in staging new work and one-off events from across the worlds of music, theatre and art. The venues will include a derelict railway station and a disused chapel. Sir Kenneth will appear in his first Shakespeare play for more than a decade with his debut performance as Macbeth. That will take place in a deconsecrated church. The newly-announced events include: Maxine Peake will star in a new version of Percy Bysshe Shelley's political poem The Masque of Anarchy, written about the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, to be staged in a former chapel next to the site of the massacre. Provocative Italian director Romeo Castellucci will reinterpret Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with a 100-piece orchestra in the derelict Mayfield railway depot to mark the dance work's centenary. Willem Dafoe and Russian dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov will appear in avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson's new production of the play The Old Woman. Artists Tracey Emin, John Baldessari and Sarah Lucas will take part in the exhibition do it 20 13 at Manchester Art Gallery, based around artists and visitors carrying out written instructions from other artists. Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman. Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, Sufi singer Abida Parveen, atmospheric electronic duo Goldfrapp and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy are among the musicians due to appear. Festival director Alex Poots said: "Probably because we're living through unprecedentedly troubled times, there are a number of artists making work who are responding to questions around power, the individual, coexistence, compassion. We've not had that before. Another theme in the festival is people discovering places they've never been. Massive Attack and The Rite of Spring will be in the Mayfield depot, which has been closed to public access for over 50 years. It's an amazing, huge, cavernous space right next to Piccadilly station. This is the fourth edition of the festival, which takes place every two years.