MACBETH @ The Crane Estate
Presented by Theater in the Open & the Firehouse Center for the Arts
with Glass Dove Productions & Vicious Mole Theatre Collective
Performances begin at 6pm. Allow for a short walk between the parking lot and the performance site.
The Crane Estate
290 Argilla Road
Ipswich, MA, 01938
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/
