SITI Company Radio Macbeth

"Captures the spirit of--and the spirits in--Macbeth."--Michael Grossberg, Columbus Dispatch

This fresh look at Macbeth continues SITI's interest in bold new approaches to Shakespeare (like their 2004 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream) and to the idea of radio plays (launched with their 2003 take on Orson Welles's and the Mercury Theater on the Air's legendary broadcast of War of the Worlds). A world of dramatic sound effects and musical figures enlivens the foreground for the radio play concept, as SITI's superb sound designer, Darron L West, codirects Radio Macbeth with Anne Bogart. Join in welcoming the company for their sixth Wexner Center–sponsored creative residency.

Just added: 7 PM show on Sunday.

$5 tickets for teens (ages 13-18) are available through High 5 Tickets to the Arts. Click here for details. Here's Anne Bogart on Radio Macbeth:

"Radio MacBeth takes place late at night in the guts of an abandoned theater. Actors circle restlessly around the common, shared warmth of a rehearsal table, moving through the bullet of Shakespeare's briefest and perhaps most magnetic play. Around them, in the perimeter of the space, the ghosts of all previous productions hover and encroach. The spirits of ambition, violence, fortune, fate, free will, hubris, vengeance, pride, indecision, paradox, the eternal male-female conflict, and madness flicker and glow. The actors cling to the sanity of words while the chaos of history grows to be undeniably present with them in the room."

Visit the Cam's on Campus lounge before or after the show on Friday and Saturday evening. It's open with bar service from 6:30 to 10 PM.