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Macbeth presented by Town & Gown Players
Something wicked this way comes to Athens this October when T&G summon William Shakespeare's bewitching MACBETH to open their season
Spellcasting crones, bubbling cauldrons, and gore covered ghosts haunt the stage in this Halloween treat from the motley crew who brought you EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL, SHE KILLS MONSTERS, DRACULA, and THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW.
Fair is foul and foul is fair when, following a fateful fortune-telling, a celebrated hero and his beloved wife succumb to murderous ambition. Once they’ve bloodied their hands, one death leads to another, and before long madness and mayhem threaten to consume both the couple and their kingdom.
MACBETH stars Adam Shirley and Beth Kozinsky as the titular butcher and his fiendlike queen. Beth Kozinsky is no stranger to getting her hands bloody onstage, a fixture of the Town & Gown Players for over fifteen years. She now returns to the role she last played in 2000, though she also ruled Elsinore recently as Queen Gertrude in T&G’s 2013 production of HAMLET. Adam Shirley is a familiar face to local audiences as well, having fought the forces of darkness as Ash in EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL but succumbed to their sinister wiles as Brad in THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW.
The Town & Gown Players are an all-volunteer community theatre and harness a wealth of new and seasoned local talent from UGA, the Athens area, and beyond to stage shows like MACBETH. The directing team, Steven Carroll and Rachel Steffens, may spend their days working for the University, but they have toiled every night to orchestrate the horror being conjured this October. Graphic artists Cathie Cabe and Zack Haener apply their love for the macabre to realize the production’s ambitious special makeup effects, not to mention the copious amounts of blood that will be gushing during key gory moments. Local painter Bryn Adamson not only portrays the doomed character of Lady Macduff but creates the show’s stony and stormy Scottish setting as MACBETH’s chief scenic artist.
MACBETH
By William Shakespeare
Presented by the Town & Gown Players
Directed by W. Steven Carroll
Performing October 2-4 & 8-11, 2015
8pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 2pm Sunday
Admission: $15
$12 for Members, Students, and Seniors
$8 for Students and Members on Thursdays
At the Athens Community Theatre, 115 Grady Avenue off Prince
For tickets visit townandgownplayers.org
