This fall sees Revolution Shakespeare’s first full production: a New Orleans-inspired MACBETH, from October 1-12.
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MACBETH (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival): A Minimalist Vision
Director Patrick Mulcahy takes a modernist approach to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of MACBETH, with a 20th-century minimalist aesthetic that compels the audience to focus on the emotions and actions of the characters and the power of the playwright’s language. It’s stark and intense, and also, at times, oddly anachronistic and comical, performed in attire that suggests a peculiar mash-up of wartime Berlin and dance club chic, military and punk.
View More MACBETH (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival): A Minimalist VisionMACBETH (Hedgrow): An ambitious and effective take on the Scottish play
Director Dan Hodge does not mind imposing his vision upon a text. His bold decision to combine the Ariel and Miranda characters proved surprisingly effective.in…
View More MACBETH (Hedgrow): An ambitious and effective take on the Scottish playMACBETH (Commonwealth): 60-second review
MACBETH is a violent play, a feature emphasized by the contemporary military garb and extended fight choreography in the worthwhile production by Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company.…
View More MACBETH (Commonwealth): 60-second reviewShakespeare in Philadelphia: The Arden’s Romeo and Juliet Introduces a Season of the Bard
Four hundred years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the world’s most produced playwright. For evidence of his enduring popularity look no further than the region’s stages:…
View More Shakespeare in Philadelphia: The Arden’s Romeo and Juliet Introduces a Season of the Bard