Macbeth
Something wicked this way comes.
A drum-beating, hair-raising, blood-pumping, two-faced production of William Shakespeare’s Tragedie of Macbeth in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. A creative collaboration between Glass Dove Productions, Theater in the Open, and Vicious Mole Theatre Collective, with producing partners The Firehouse Center for the Arts, the Players’ Ring, and Rochester Opera House.
In Fall 2023 we brought our ensemble together in Essex County, Massachusetts to create our Macbeth in five days, using a “quick-raise” rehearsal process which combines original Elizabethan theatrical practices with modern ensemble-building techniques. This initial series of performances was 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.
In Spring 2024 we brought the same ensemble of actors to Portsmouth, NH, to dress our show in artfully designed & constructed theatrical light & costumes, to re-experience our work from a new angle. Designers worked in dialogue with what they saw in the Fall production, making this a collaboration or conversation between stripped-down Elizabethan practice & modern theatrical tools & technology.
Performance & Locations
Spring 2024
- April 19th - 28th at the Players’ Ring, Portsmouth, NH
- May 3rd - 5th at Rochester Opera House’s Rochester Performance & Arts Center
Fall 2023
- September 22nd - 24th at St. Paul’s Church, Newburyport, MA
- September 29th & October 1st at The Crane Estate, Ipswich, MA
- September 30 at Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, MA