Mac Beth
by William Shakespeare, Erica Schmidt

Name: Mac Beth
Brand: William Shakespeare
SKU: 9780822240891
Rating: 4.05 (1 reviews)

Off-Broadway

Highlights

Female

90 mins Present Day All Women Role(s) for Teen(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Lucille Lortel Award

Nominee: Two 2020 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Play Nominee: 2020 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival

Synopsis

After school, seven teenage girls convene in an abandoned lot to perform a play.

They drop their backpacks, transform their uniforms and dive into a DIY retelling of Macbeth .

As the girls conjure kings, warriors and witches, Shakespeare’s bloody tale seeps into their reality.

Mac Beth recontextualizes a classic text to expose the ferocity of adolescence and the intoxicating power of collective fantasy.

Press Reviews

"Equally giggly and grisly… The language is mostly Shakespeare’s, albeit pared down to one whirlwind act. The sensibility, however, is decidedly contemporary, as these hyperactive drama queens get lost in a gruesome fantasy world that casts some of them as villains and others as victims. The bloody savagery that these fresh-faced girls are capable of inflicting on each other is hard to wash off your mind.” – Time Out New York “Hauntingly brilliant. Take the classic tale of ambition and lust for power, mix it with an ensemble of seven young women with dark imaginations, and add toxic manipulations and you have a gritty adaptation that will leave you speechless. We are reminded how good men, or in this case good girls, are capable of appalling things."
— BroadwayWorld

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
MACBETH	—	—	—
BANQUO – Also SEYTON	—	—	—
LADY MACBETH	female	—	—
MACDUFF	—	—	—
WITCH 1 – Also ROSS, DONALBAIN, PORTER, MURDERER 1, DOCTOR	—	—	—
WITCH 2 – Also ANGUS, MALCOLM, OLD MAN, MURDERER 2	—	—	—
WITCH 3 – Also DUNCAN, FLEANCE, LENOX, GENTLEWOMAN The witches also play servants and messengers and attendants throughout.	—	—	The witches also play servants and messengers and attendants throughout.