THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH: The Blessed Feast of Holinshed
Southbank Shakespeare
July 10-13
Thomas More University Observatory Lawn [Crestview Hills]
Directed by Timothy Andrew Leonard
Cast: David Goble as Macbeth & Elizabeth Durham as Lady Macbeth
Dutiful Chorus: Parker Culp, Sophia DiPuccio, Natalie Hayslett, Jun Holubeck, Ashley Matt, Joe Mitchell, Regan Utrup & Anna Verderber
FREE Performance – Estimated to have been written and first performed in 1606, The Scottish Play has been a centerpiece of Shakespeare’s canon since its inception. The tale of witchcraft, prophecy, and bloody ambition has fueled countless ghost stories over the years, and is sure to fill countless more as years continue to fold over and over. Join us this summer as we travel thousands of years divorced from Shakespeare’s pen, and enter an age when the context dividing secular and religious scripture has been completely forgotten. Witness the small nomadic tribe pass through our land as they make their yearly sacrifice to ensure successful migration to more fertile lands, and pray to their Gods for a bountiful harvest.
- Thu-Sun, July 10-13 at 7:30pm
Prospero was once a grand lady, a famous sorceress and the ruler of the city-state Milan. A shocking coup, led by her ruthless sister Antonia, ended with Prospero left for dead on a deserted island. Now, many years later, fate – and a raging tempest summoned by Prospero’s magic – brings the two sisters face to face once more, and Prospero must make an irrevocable choice between virtue and vengeance. The Tempest, Shakespeare’s final comedy, is a tale of hope, betrayal, and justice, packed full of magic and monsters, handsome princes and bumbling servants, and longings more wild and powerful than the raging sea itself.
Southbank Shakespeare is overjoyed and so excited to announce the cast for this summer’s production of CORIOLANUS. An oft forgotten gem in Shakespeare’s illustrious canon, CORIOLANUS tells the story of a Rome that is viciously searching for a new way to represent its citizens, and the socially self-destructive military hero that lies at the center of it all: Caius Martius Coriolanus. A tragedy of those left behind by the state, and the lies they are told so that those in power can absorb more and more of the state without challenge. Join us for a ballad of honor, valor, and betrayal June 20-23 at Thomas Moore University.
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