MACBETH @ St. Paul's Church
Presented by Theater in the Open & the Firehouse Center for the Arts
with Glass Dove Productions & Vicious Mole Theatre Collective
Performances begin at 7pm. There is street parking available on High Street and the surrounding streets.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
166 High Street
Newburyport, MA, 01950
Come & experience a drum-beating, hair-raising, blood-pumping, two-faced production of William Shakespeare’s Tragedie of Macbeth. This Fall we will bring our ensemble together to create our Macbeth in five days, using a “quick-raise” rehearsal process which combines original Elizabethan theatrical practices with modern ensemble-building techniques. These performances will be bare-bones, essential, utilizing a bare stage or found space, a few scraps of fabric, a drum, the voices & bodies of the actors, and the crucial ingredient of 400-year-old words that still fire the imagination.
And this is just the first part of our project: the same ensemble will return to the play in April, 2024, adding artfully designed & constructed theatrical light & costumes in a collaboration or conversation between stripped-down Elizabethan practice & modern theatrical tools & technology.
Each production will be a unique exploration, and we hope you see both!
Information about both iterations is available here:
https://viciousmole.net/macbeth-double/
