Driven by ambition to murder, Macbeth (Will Brandenburg) hands off the bloodied weapons to Lady Macbeth (Aliya Weisberg). This Grand Marais Playhouse production of Macbeth boldly demonstrates the corrupting power of evil. Macbeth opens April 28.
The Grand Marais Playhouse presents Macbeth, the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies.
Combining swift action and soaring poetry, we follow one man’s rash powerplay for the crown. Ambition infects Macbeth’s brain like a virus upon hearing three witches predict that he will one day be king. Spurred on by his equally ambitious wife, he murders the good King Duncan. One evil deed leads to the next, unleashing an escalating cascade of violence, guilt, sleeplessness, paranoia and madness.
Macbeth reflects on his actions in some of the most sublime soliloquies in the Shakespearean canon as he rushes headlong towards his demise. This is a poisonous world where, as the witches intone at the very start, “fair is foul and foul is fair,” where values are reversed and nothing is what it seems to be. From the prophecies of the Weird Sisters to the silent appearance of Banquo’s ghost, the supernatural plays a central role in this historicallybased tragedy.
But so does psychology and Shakespeare focuses a laser-like intensity on the disintegrating mental state of the murderous king. With almost no diversionary subplots, Macbeth is thrillingly direct in its stark demonstration of the corrupting power of evil.
Macbeth runs April 28 through May 1, and May 5-7. (Thursday – Saturday 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts.) Tickets are $10 adults and $5 students.
This production is funded by the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, and an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature.
Macbeth
Arrowhead Center for the Arts. $10 adults $5 students
| Thursday | April 28/May | 5 | 7:00 | p.m. | |
| Friday | April | 29/May | 6 | 7:00 | p.m. |
| Saturday | April | 30/May | 7 | 7:00 | p.m. |
| Sunday | May1 | 2:00 | p.m. |
Macbeth Cast list
Macbeth Will Brandenburg
Lady Macbeth Aliya Weisberg
Macduff Jeff Fenwick
Banquo/ Caithness Sarah Warren
Duncan Kevin Kager
Malcolm Cy Fortunato
Lennox Sarah Larsen
1st witch Katrina Axtell
2nd witch Amber Todd
3rd witch Yvonne Block
Porter Micheala Peterson
Lady Macduff Ashley Ross
Young Macduff Mara MacDonell
Young Siward Maria Nickolay
Fleance Jordynn Kirk
actors will also play:
Lords, Reporters, Soldiers, Apparitions
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