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Macbeth
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The Will Geer Theatrium Botanicum
1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Topanga
, CA
90290
Saturday, June 07, 2008 -- 08:00 PM
"MACBETH" "Something Wicked This Way Comes" to
Theatricum Botanicum this summer.
William Shakespeare's thrilling supernatural tragedy, Macbeth, joins The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's 2008 Summer Season on Saturday, June in the Theatricum's 299-seat outdoor amphitheater that is carved into the Topanga Canyon hillside.
Full of murder, treason, ambition and greed, Macbeth is a brilliant political thriller about the rise and fall of a brave warrior who would be king at any price. Haunted by prophecies and goaded by his ambitious wife, Macbeth sets in motion an evil and bloody rise to the throne. The last and darkest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Shakespeare's play is loosely based on the story of Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, who reigned as king of Scotland from 1040-1057 A.D. It is a chilling tale of greed, corruption and death that follows Macbeth’s transformation from a battlefield hero to a bloody tyrant.
"Macbeth transcends what might seem the limits of art," wrote renowned Shakespeare critic Harold Bloom. "It is a visionary tragedy."
Comments Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer, who co-directs with last season's "Dracula", Chad Jason Sheppner, "When ambition becomes distorted with the longing for power and obsession collides with greed, the world spirals into one of villainy, destruction and chaos."
On Monday night, June 16 from 7-9 pm, playgoers will have a chance to explore the language and themes of Macbeth more deeply and intimately with Ellen Geer, Chad Jason Sheppner, and members of the cast. The evening is part of a new event series called Herta's Roundtables; with all proceeds from the separate admission fee going to benefit the Herta Ware Scholarship Fund.
$20.00 - $28.00
310-455-3723
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