THE
BRICK THEATER, INC. and
DO WHAT NOW MEDIA
present
"apocalyptic, disturbing,
unsettling, and challenging... YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET IT OUT
OF YOUR MIND"
-- Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com, pick of
the week 2/15/03
"Wildly ambitious, uniformly terrific, evocative, powerful...
Though a heady mix, Cwiklik's confident command of the material
makes for an amazing ride... a psychosexual fever dream of domination,
submission and the wages of power."
-- Tom Penketh, Backstage.com,
review of 2003 production
"This guy is - and I've said this before - a genius. "
Martin
Denton, NYTheatre.com review of Antony & Cleopatra, 2002
The return of the acclaimed and infamous theatrical event, writer/director
Frank Cwiklik's BITCH MACBETH marks the first production from
this influential theater maverick in Brooklyn's The Brick,
recently named Time Out New York's "Essential Theater Space
for 2007". Transforming the imposing Brick interior into
an otherworldly landscape, this show immerses its audience in
a strikingly foreign, yet unsettlingly familiar universe in
which feudal estates vie for power and glamour, psychosexual
relationships are the norm, history is five minutes long, and
life is a brief and brutal kind of controlled chaos. Rewritten
and reimagined to provide a new and challenging experience,
yet still possessed of the same ambitious, brash daring and
mayhem, this is a fresh and disturbing theatrical event.
In a dark and stony cathedral, a pair of dominas divine a prophecy
in the whip-worn scars of a penitent slave's back. Macbeth
is chosen, a long, hard road, a climb. As he and his Femme rise,
kill, slaughter, the House of Asbury, torn by addiction and
destitution, unravels publicly, sending Prime, a sensitive young
girl, into an abyss of sadosexual torment, and her brother,
Small, to join his sadoslave and confidante in a burgeoning
revolution that may bring about the total destruction of this
alien civilization. Fate is what we make of it. Life is a vice.
Vice is a choice. Sex is currency. Love is foreign. Language
is fractured. Existence is short and merciless. All hail BITCH
MACBETH.
Starring indie theater favorite Adam Swiderski as the tortured
and towering Macbeth, as well as other past favorites from Do
What Now and DMTheatrics' storied past, including the return
of Bryan Enk and Matthew Gray as the infamous Rosenstern and
Guildencrantz, slavetraders to the aristocracy; Inverse Theater
Group's Bob Laine as the lion in winter, the haunting Crown
Asbury; Kevin Myers as the charming yet sinister Auctioneer;
and Michele Schlossberg as Copper, the dom whose visions set
in motion events that will reverberate throughout the kingdom.
Also joining the show are a stellar cast of young, new faces,
and Brick favorites, including Samantha Mason as the brutal,
sensual Femme Macbeth; Becky Byers as the imperiled young Prime
Asbury; David Mills Boynton as the driven and dangerous Small
Asbury; and a troupe of extraordinary dancers and performers
choreographed by Sarah E. Jacobs.
DO WHAT NOW MEDIA presents
BITCH MACBETH
starring ADAM SWIDERSKI * SAMANTHA MASON
BECKY BYERS * DAVID MILLS BOYNTON * BOB LAINE
FRED BACKUS * BRYAN ENK * MATTHEW GRAY
MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG * and KEVIN MYERS as the Auctioneer
with ALEXANDRA COHEN-SPIEGLER * EMMA PEELE * SARAH E. JACOBS
* JESS BEVERIDGE * SARAH BRODSKY * MERCEDES EMELINA * PATRICK
PIZZOLORUSSO * CANDACE YOSHIOKA
Choreographer/Dance Captain SARAH E. JACOBS
Assistant Director CHRISTIAAN KOOP
Co-Producer/Fight Coordinator MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG
Written, Produced, Designed, and Directed by FRANK CWIKLIK
2 hrs, 30 minutes -- 1 intermission
Previews:
January 4 & 5 at 8pm
January 6 at 7:30pm
Performances: January 10 to 27
Thu-Sat at 8pm, Sunday at 7:30pm
$25
Tickets available at 212-352-3101
or Theatermania.com
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