SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND Comes to Rowaton

Directed by Artistic Director Claire Shannon Kelly, MACBETH will transform the idyllic Pinkney Park on the Five Mile River to the eerie Scottish Highlands. Kelly wants the production to be an immersive experience for the audience; Macbeth's journey will be their journey too.

Kelly and the designers, Brian Prather (sets), Grier Coleman (costumes) and Jamie Roderick (lighting) blur the lines between actors and audience with a setting that evokes the Ouroboros (the ancient symbol of a snake eating its own tail). Several individual set locations will allow for the action of the play to be performed in and around the audience.

Lady Macbeth (Obie Award winner Winsome Brown) feeds Macbeth's (Drama Desk Award winner Graham Stevens) ambition and gives him the strength to pursue his darkest desires. "I am very excited to share this journey into madness and tyranny with our audience. It's important to me that Macbeth doesn't start out as a villain, but the play shows us how the taste of power can corrupt. Macbeth's downfall is his inability to control his ambition that, like a snake, coils around him squeezing the humanity out of him," adds Kelly, "Like Shakespeare's time we live in an era where politics is a blood sport. We couldn't imagine a better play to share with our audience right now."

Continuing the ticketing policy introduced last year, admission is FREE with a suggested donation of $20 for adults, $10 for students and seniors on the Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances required tickets will need to be purchased. Ticket prices are also $20 for adults and $10 for seniors and students.

"Since average donations at the gate in the past have been under $8 per person our decision to charge admission for certain performances enables us to sustain the artistic quality of our plays and continue to provide educational programs to schools, community centers, and libraries" said a spokesperson for Shakespeare on the Sound.

Reserved seating is available for $50 at every performance and as always children 12 and under are FREE.

To order your tickets or reserve seats, please visit www.shakespeareonthesound.org.

The Macbeth cast includes: Winsome Brown, Matt Consalvo, Meghan Grover, John Hardin, James Hesse, David Reece Hutchison, Henry Jenkinson, Lily Lipman, Rod Singleton, Calvin Leon Smith, Graham Stevens, Nicholas Urda, Lucy Van Atta, Jessica Van Niel. Local Connecticut children also in the cast include: Phoebe Bryan, Sean Redahan, Karsten Rynearson, Michaela Maloney Seshan, Beatrice Shannon and Owen Tanzer.

The production will feature Scenic Design by Brian Prather, Costume Design by Grier Coleman, Lighting Design by Jamie Roderick, Sound Design by Alex Santullo, Composer is Damian Lamar Hudson, Fight Direction by Rod Kinter, and Vocal Coaching by Dianna Cortez. Maia Robbins-Zust is the Technical Director and Production Stage Manager is Ed Herman. This year the production is being produced in association with 22Q Entertainment - Robert Levinstein and Alan Wager.

Every night at 6:30pm, one hour in advance of our main stage production, there is a special 30 minute MACBETH FOR KIDS presentation for children performed by our Apprentice Company.

Shakespeare on the Sound's Production of MACBeth Begins performances on June 15 and continues for ONLY 16 performances thru July 2. The production runs Tuesdays through Sundays. The box office in the park opens at 3:30pm and the park opens at 4pm.

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