Roust Theatre Company


What: 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare When: Fall 2008 Where: Theater 3 (The Mint Theater Space), New York City Who: Director: James Phillip Gates, Producer: Tracy Hostmyer for Roust, Set Design: Casey Smith, Light Design: Travis Sawyer, Costume Design: Heather Klar, Sound Design: John Kemp, Production Stage Manager: Christine J. Massoud, Acting Company: Kristin Barnett, Melissa Center, Tracy Hostmyer, Emily Hubelbank, Duane Boutte, Craig Braun, Nick Lawson, Tom Macy, Hugh Martin, Tyler Moss, Michael Peterson, Andrew Pifko, Isaac Woofter, Trey Ziegler
Shakespeare's most popular play receives the Roust treatment. An intense, 90 minutes, R-rated ride from start to finish, this bloody, unrelenting drama, which looks so deeply at the tortured human psyche, could be a drama miniseries event on HBO. Set against the backdrop of a dangerous, sinister underworld, where power, money and suspicion are all mixed in a boiling pot with lust, vice and murder; moral lines are blurred, perhaps non-existent. There's a good dose of sex, torture, under-age prostitution and biological manipulation to create more efficient killing machines. This nihilistic tale tells of one ex-soldier's violent rise to power through the ranks of a mercenary army. Twisted by fate and a power-hungry spouse, he shows us the ravaging and tangible effects of fear, the destructive impact of our own nature's dark forces through senseless, unjustified killing.


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