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MacBeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot!

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PERFORMER: Eldritch Theatre

Eldritch Theatre presents MacBeth: “A Tale Told by an Idiot” By Weird William Shakespeare Conceived & Performed by Eerie Eric Woolfe Directed by Doomed Dylan Trowbridge Designed by Mad Melanie McNeill Behold! Eldritch Theatre’s dementedly inspired, one-man MacBeth! Shakespeare’s blood-soaked king, with weird witches, viscera-sopped murders, nightmares of madness, and terrifying occult prophecies crashing head on with our ghoulishly giddy bag of timorous trickery! Performed by a solo actor using a diverse range of multi-sized puppets, masks, and parlour magic, cosmic horror, and lowbrow pop, this Mad Mackers is equal parts high tragedy and cartoonish lunacy! “A cartoonish Grand Guignol spectacle!” – Istvan Reviews “An artist at the peak of his bizarre and bonkers powers!” – Drew Rowsome Dora Award Nominations for Outstanding Performance, Outstanding Set Design, Outstanding Costume Design ***Warning: Fog Machine, Blank Verse, Witchery, Bloodshed & Murther

AGES: 12 and up
WHEN

Friday night, August 7

About Eldritch Theatre

Eldritch Theatre was formed in 1886 after an impertinent Ouija board informed Randolph Pomeranski that his soul would be devoured by The Great Old Ones That Were And Shall Be Again unless he produced a series of puppets plays exploring the dark and foreboding mysteries of the Dread Necronomicon of Abdul-Alhazred. Unfortunately, none of these plays were ever performed, because when it came time to write grant applications, the Ouija Board would only spell gibberish. One hundred years after Pomeranski’s blood-sopped demise in the knotting room of an unlicensed wig factory, Eldritch Theatre reformed to create, develop and produce plays that deal in themes of the horrific, supernatural and uncanny, often with a darkly comedic bent, which seek to scare, entertain and enlighten audiences in equal measure. These plays explore innovations in staging, including extensive incorporation of puppetry, mask, and a post-Brechtian approach to staging the fantastic.

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