"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." |
Don't miss New York Classical Theatre's 18th season this summer! An incredibly powerful production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", directed by Stephen Burdman, is playing in Battery Park till 8/20; then in Brooklyn Bridge Park 8/22-8/27 [excluding Thursdays & rainy days]. All performances start at 7pm and are free to attend. Read this glowing and descriptive review by
The Three Witches in front of Castle Clinton, Battery Park |
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair" |
The Three Weird Sisters and Banquo (Clay Storseth) |
Macbeth (Will Dixon) and Banquo (Clay Storseth) |
Malcolm (Ian Antal) |
"Things without all remedy
Should be without regard:
what's done, is done"
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Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) and Macbeth (Will Dixon) |
Macbeth (Will Dixon) and Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) |
"Come, you spirits. That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full. Of direst cruelty." |
The Three Witches and Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) |
Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) and Macbeth (Will Dixon) |
Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) |
"-What three things does drink especially provoke?-Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and
urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance"
The Three Witches |
Banquo (Clay Storseth) and Macbeth (Will Dixon) |
"Are you a man?"
Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) and Macbeth (Will Dixon) over Banquo's body |
"Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it." |
Macduff (M. Scott McLean) and Malcolm (Ian Antal) |
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" |
Mad sleepwalking Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) |
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." |
Macbeth (Will Dixon) |
Make sure to check out some amazing reportage art of this production by my friends Veronica Lawlor, Charlotte Noruzi, Margaret Hurst.