THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
This event is being re-scheduled for a date during ScotWeek, April 15 – 23, 2021. Continue to watch this space for ticket sales and more info coming very soon!
An evening of fine theatre featuring a dramatic reading of “the Scottish Play” – William Shakespeare’s MacBeth. Direct by ScotWeek’s own Louis Fantasia.
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare’s acting company, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright’s relationship with his sovereign. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.
Shakespeare’s source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. The events of the tragedy are usually associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as “The Scottish Play“. Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Starring
Harry Hamlin
MacBeth
Julia Ormond
Lady MacBeth
Grant O’Rourke
MacDuff
Ruth Connell
Lady MacDuff
Jamison Jones
Banquo
Lawrence Pressman
Duncan
Robert Picardo
Scottish Doctor
Sylvester McCoy
The Porter
Kelsey Deanne
Witch
Jane Brucker
Witch
Louis Fantasia, Director
Louis Fantasia has produced and directed more than a hundred and fifty plays and operas worldwide. Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre’s Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute from 1997 to 2002, and President of Deep Springs College (2007), Louis is currently Dean of Faculty and Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus, and Director of Shakespeare at the Huntington, the teacher training institute of the Huntington Library, Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
Louis Fantasia
All seating is General Admission (no assigned seating) sections:
Balcony: Upper Balcony
Main Area: General Area
Premium Area: First two rows + entry to post-show reception
The Moss Theater seating chart
HOW DO YOU GET TICKETS TO MACBETH
Patricia, tickets will go on sale this week. We’ll post it on our social media when they do. Or check back with us in a few days. Thank you!