Performances begin tonight for Hunter Theater Project's strictly limited return engagement for Red Bull Theater's critically acclaimed production of Mac Beth, adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt, from the play by William Shakespeare.
The production plays seven weeks only from Monday, January 6 through Saturday, February 22, 2020, at the
Frederick Loewe Theatre, East 68th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues. Tickets ($49, $15 for students with ID, with no service charge) are on sale at
www.huntertheaterproject.org.
Mac Beth, which runs 90 minutes with no intermission, originally premiered in 2018 at
Seattle Repertory Theatre. Red Bull Theater's production played from May 7 through June 9, 2019 at the
Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the run was extended by popular demand.
On an autumn afternoon, in an empty lot outside the city, seven school girls meet up to perform a play. In an urban wasteland, the girls in their tartan school uniforms transform into witches, ghosts, and kings. They hurl headlong into the unchecked passions of Macbeth-in Shakespeare's original text-as the line between real life and blood fantasy quickly blurs. Through prophecies and smartphones, blood and Beyonce, unexpected resonances emerge from Shakespeare's dark nightmare of ambition gone awry, while at the same time, these young women discover what's done cannot be undone.
Schmidt's previous Shakespeare adaptations and productions include Richard II with
Robert Sean Leonard (
The New Group), As You Like It (Public Theater/NYSF), Love's Labour's Lost (Juilliard), and Titus Andronicus (Vassar). She was recently represented Off-Broadway with
The New Group's Cyrano, starring
Peter Dinklage. Other credits include All the Fine Boys (
The New Group, writer/director); Turgenev's A Month in the Country with
Peter Dinklage and
Taylor Schilling (CSC); Taking Care of Baby (MTC); Trust (
The Play Company, Callaway Award nomination); and Debbie Does Dallas, which she wrote and directed.
The cast of Mac Beth features
Brittany Bradford (Fefu and Her Friends) as Macbeth, Camila Camió-Flavá (Network, Dance Nation) as Macduff,
Sharlene Cruz (Red Bull's Mac Beth) as Witch 3, Dylan Gelula ("Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," First Girl I Loved) as Witch 1,
Sophie Kelly-Hedrick (Red Bull's Mac Beth) as Witch 2,
Ismenia Mendes ("Orange is the New Black") as Lady Macbeth, and
Ayana Workman (Public Theatre's Romeo and Juliet) as Banquo.
Set design is by
Catherine Cornell, costume design is by
Jessica Pabst, lighting design is by
Jeff Croiter, sound design is by
Erin Bednarz, and movement by
Lorenzo Pisoni. The production manager is
Jeff Harris and general manager is
Rebecca Sherman.
The Hunter Theater Project production of Mac Beth is made possible by a generous gift from Susie Sainsbury and the Backstage Trust.
Visit
www.huntertheaterproject.org for tickets and performance schedule.
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