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Eugene Ionesco's MACBETT
Translated by Charles Marowitz. directed by Matthew Woods
“Let us swear to trust each other completely!”
This fall heads will roll! Shakespeare’s “Scottish Play” receives an absurdist makeover in this dark and tragic farce in which soldiers and kings are merely puppets, and no one is holding the strings. One tyrant begets another as wives transform into witches, military men behave like children at play, and little boys are crowned king-for-a-day. But in this fool’s paradise, innocence is never what it seems, and from the battle to the butterfly field the only thing certain is that somebody must pay!
Presented in repertory with Whistler in the Dark’s production of Dogg’s Hamlet & Cahoot’s Macbeth by Tom Stoppard, as part of Double, Double, Toil and Trouble ~ A Witches’ Brew of Shakespeare, Re-Mixed! Opening October 27, 2011.
Macbett
Performed at...
The Plaza Black Box Theatre
at the Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA.
November 3 - November 19, 2011
Macbett was presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, inc.
Photos by Nancy IasBarrone
“...the physical production, which seems balanced between a British pantomime and a Kurosawa movie, is filled with striking touches...that stick with you well after the final curtain. Students of Ionesco - or simply students of intelligent, exploratory theatre - will find much to admire in this stimulating production of a flawed, but intriguing, play.”
-- Thomas Garvey, The Hub Review
To read the complete review, CLICK HERE.
“...a bewitching tale of ambtion, corruption... The members of Imaginary Beasts quite literally throw themselves — and pummel, somersault and tangle themselves — in Ionesco’s highfalutin farce.”
-- Jenna Scherer, The Boston Herald
To read the complete review, CLICK HERE.
The Ensemble...
Erin Brehm
Nate Gundy
Amy Meyer
Joey Pelletier
Kiki Samko
Scott Sweatt
Michael Underhill
Jesse Wood
Mac Young
Costume Design...
Cotton Talbot-Minkin
Lighting Design...
PJ Strachman
Set Design...
Mac Young