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Macsith to challenge tradition and to revitalize classic theatre at Lake Superior Theatre!

Blazing sword play, sweeping music and action! Witches, warlocks and ghost, yes this is Shakespeare! Director Orion Couling isn?t re-inventing the wheel when he brings a new incarnation of Shakespeare?s Macbeth. He calls it Macsith The goal isn?t invention it?s about opening a younger audience to the Bard and tying a modern audience into an classic style. The script is sparse and fast paced but with the dramaturgy of BG Bradley it holds the core of the Play ?Macsith is not Star Wars. Macsith is not Macbeth. It?s something entirely new which manages the tight rope walk of preserving the language and dark foreboding of the Scottish Play and All the fun of sci-fi. While delivering a potent message that embodies both genres and speaks to our time.?

Work-shopped in Las Vegas and Chicago the play moves at a searing pace and finishes in just over an hour. A good thing too in that there are multiple shows a night for the cast. ?People today expect more from their entertainment.? Says director Orion Couling of Chicago. His mission is straightforward. Tell it like a movie, without the benefits of green screen and computer effects. Without hundreds of thousands of dollars for special effects.

Couling, a Northern Michigan University (NMU) alum believes it can be done. ? The stage is where the masters of special FX and grand started their story telling. Peter Pan began wire work before the Matrix. Medea had flaming chariots before Star Wars had star fighters. We tap into that at the boathouse. Whether it?s the mask work, the glowing swords, or the shadow work I?m pulling from Anime, Sci-fi and Hong Kong as much as Greek, Noe? Del arte and of course traditional Shakespeare.

The cast ranges in age from 5 to 50 with veterans like NMU?s Timmy Grams playing the title character to new upcoming local star Monica Nordeen of Gwinn as the powerful ?Lady M?. Boyne City?s Brenton Fitzpatrick portrayal of the noble hero to a kingly performance from BG Bradley of Westwood High School.

And if the style was not enough to keep an audience on its toes the 7:30 show is classic music from Hollywood but the 10 pm show is scored with rock, hip hop and rap. See it for the spectacle love it for the drama. Props that could be straight out of the cinema by Len King?s studio and a set that uses shadow, light, and simplicity to tell an epic story.

Macsith opens Aug 5th and runs through Aug 9th with a show at 7:30 and 10pm at Lake Superior Theatre (address) Tickets are available at the Ticket Booth in Lower Harbor and also by calling 906-227 ROCK.

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