Does Macbeth project as Rambo or Gordon Gekko? This is not a trick question. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth”, an injured sergeant describes the title character’s conduct on the field of battle early in the play: ”For brave Macbeth, … Disdaining fortune, with his brandisht steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion, Carved out … Continue reading
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Fairly foul, fairly good: Sundown Collaborative “Macbeth”
Fairly foul, fairly good. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth gets produced fairly often, with mixed results. Guess it’s one of those “harder than it looks” plays. I’ve seen three fairly effective productions by professional companies over the past few years, both in superior venues, with large budgets for costumes and fully realized sets and effects, helmed by … Continue reading
Stop Kiss Stops Short @ Sundown Collaborative
Some stage productions get directed, others just blocked. In the case of Diana Son’s 1998 comic drama Stop Kiss, now playing at Art Six in Denton, a project of Sundown Collaborative Theatre, it’s the latter. Produced Off-Broadway in 1998 at New York City’s The Public Theater to critical acclaim, the play weaves themes of coming … Continue reading
Sundown in Luv
(il)logical, “a play on love” ran at the Green Space Arts Collective in Denton TX through August 29, 2010. Marjorie Hayes’ guest review of Sundown Collaborative Theatre‘s production follows. The ambition of Sundown Collaborative Theatre’s latest offering displays the primal urge to create that rests in us all. Where does that come from? Love. To … Continue reading
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