The Rustic Mechanicals - WV Shakespeare Group
Macbeth - Sunday August 10th
Something wicked this way comes!
The Rustic Mechanicals are proud to present Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Macbeth as part of their 2025 Vaulting Ambition Tour!
Murder! Prophecy! Witches! …and, surprisingly, Love! The power of a prophecy tempts the ambitious General Macbeth and his passionately persuasive wife to accelerate their road to royalty. Something wicked this way comes when the real-life husband and wife founders of the Rustic Mechanicals play the original power couple whose vaulting ambition unravels their love and their lives.
Jim Warren, director of Macbeth, is ecstatic to bring the magic of a tragedy to life in a new, unique way. “What an awesome challenge we have in carrying the torch (so to speak!) of doing Macbeth using Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions to gross-out, freak-out, surprise, delight, and scare our audiences without light boards, sound boards, or electric fog machines. We will create a live, acoustic soundtrack: creepy sounds/voices that will help an audience imagine the heath, the castles, the backdrop for the battles in ways that Shakespeare’s company did for the play’s first audiences… and underneath it all has to be love! If our production is not filled with big love, the story, the tragedy doesn’t work. I am completely bored by and intolerant of theatre, tv, film where I don’t care about characters.”
Sunday - August 10th - 8 PM Start - A FREE EVENT!!