Tennessee Shakespeare Company
Michael Khanlarian (Banquo), Paul Kiernan (Macbeth), and the Witches. Through Nov. 4.
Hard as it may seem to believe, winter is coming. It won’t be long before area playhouses roll out stock scenery and turn their attention to holiday favorites. Theatre Memphis opens The 25th Putnam County Spelling Bee this weekend. And there are still a few more opportunities to catch Agatha Christie’s enduring mystery The Mousetrap at Germantown Community Theatre. But if there’s anybody out there who’s not quite ready to put Halloween away just yet,Tennessee Shakespeare Company performs Macbeth through November 4th.
Shakespeare’s witchy meditation on ambition and evil is directed by TSC’s founder Dan McCleary and performed by a company of nine actors. How dark do things get? Here’s what McCleary had to say via the TSC website:
“The witches are our masked Chorus, and a sacrifice is offered to cleanse a world of crimes against humanity. The sacrifice is a man who Shakespeare clearly defines as noble, generous, un-ambitious, indecisive, overly kind, incapable of lying with skill, morally incapable of imagining his own corruption or wrong-doing, courageous, patriotic, regretful, and a good husband and friend. Macbeth is the best of us. What is horrific is that we might be able to explain how he becomes the very worst of us.”
Very scary.
Thursday night’s performance is Free Will Kids night. That means up to 4 kids (17 or under) are admitted with one paid adult ticket.
Tennessee Shakespeare follows Macbeth with a large cast production of As You Like It Nov. 29-Dec. 6
General Admission tickets are $39. Performances are Thursday-Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.
