Shea Presents: Montague Shakespeare Festival MACBETH
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm until 9:30 pm
Something wicked this way comes... We are thrilled to welcome Voice Expert and Text Coach Nia Lynn all the way from the Royal Shakespeare Company UK to direct the second annual Montague Shakespeare Festival's adaptation of the SCOTTISH PLAY
Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’
The Montague Shakepeare Festival enters its second year with a re-telling of the classic SCOTTISH PLAY.
A Dangerous Play of the Mind
Directed by Nia Lynn (Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe Theater London)
With an air of profound excitement and anticipation, we are honored to announce the appointment of Nia Lynn as the Artistic Director of the inaugural Montague Shakespeare Festival.?
Having worked extensively with The Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford-upon-Avon), Nia possesses a rich experience in voice, text, and performance. Her latest involvement in the RSC production of “As You Like It” as voice and text creative demonstrates her remarkable skills in bringing Shakespearean texts to life.
With Nia heading the festival, we anticipate a thrilling exploration into Shakespeare’s world, where audiences, actors, students, and educators will each have the opportunity to experience The Bard’s words in an enthralling new light.
The festival also promises the debut of new creations, born out of Shakespeare’s texts, woven seamlessly under Lynn’s guidance. These performances will showcase the depth and versatility of Shakespeare’s works in an era that reflects contemporary realities while keeping the beauty of the original scripts intact.
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes.”
Enter the dangerous mind of Shakespeare's Macbeth, where ambition, love, and the supernatural intertwine to create a psychological masterpiece. Under Nia Lynn's direction, this production plunges audiences into Shakespeare's most psychologically complex tragedy, where passionate love transforms into a conspiratorial power-grabbing nightmare, and the line between reality and imagination dissolves.
Like the generations of artists before us who dared to conjure this 'Scottish Play,' we invite you to step into Macbeth's twisted psyche, where prophecy and paranoia get mixed up in the Weird Sisters’ cauldron and the darkest corners of the human mind are trapped by the spotlight.
A Love That Fuels Ambition & A Prophecy of Doom
"And nothing is but what is not."
At the heart of this drama lies the intense, doomed partnership of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. A bond that fuels their rise to power but also precipitates a descent into madness and ruin, highlighting the destructive potential of unchecked ambition.
"Nothing is but what is not," echoes their shared vision, propelling them into a vortex of political ambition and psychological turmoil.
“A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come.”
The Weird Sisters, with their cryptic prophecies, set the stage. Their words, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair," blur the lines of morality, reality, and illusion, drawing Macbeth and the audience into a web of psychological complexity. Are the Sisters conspirators, or are they catalysts?
Shakespeare's Play of the Mind
Shakespeare's genius shines as he turns the audience into unwitting accomplices in Macbeth's mind.
Through Macbeth's prophetic visions, we see murders before they occur, constructing future horrors in our minds. Each soliloquy draws us deeper into his and Lady Macbeth’s consciousness - we anticipate the assassinations, envision ghosts, and experience the mounting paranoia as if it were our own.
By stripping away the safety of moral detachment and forcing us to conjure the play's most sinister scenes in our minds, Shakespeare lays bare unsettling truths about our natures and potential for darkness, questioning our capacity for greatness and evil.
See Love Shatter as Madness Consumes the Stage
Come, and let Shakespeare's Macbeth challenge your perceptions, where "Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself - And falls on th’ other," and the MSF Company navigates the paranoid, bloodstained tyranny of Macbeth's minds.
