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Posted in Bard Northwest, Macbeth, the Bard on stage on May 2nd, 2007
This just in from the Nortwest Classical Theatre Company:
OPENING THIS FRIDAY!!!
Most of us would probably not feel sympathy for a man who killed the king, stole the throne from the prince, murdered his best friend and killed the entire family of his colleague. But director Brian Allard wants us to do just that. [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.