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"Wildly ambitious, uniformly terrific, evocative, powerful... Though a heady mix, Cwiklik's confident command of the material makes for an amazing ride... Moira Stone gives her theatrical character great dimension... a psychosexual fever dream of domination, submission and the wages of power." -- Tom Penketh, Backstage.com "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 Originally presented to stunned sellout audiences in early 2001, this shocking, influential work made a triumphant return in the newly refurbished Kraine Theater, jewel of the Horse Trade Theater Group, in a massive, overwhelming, senses-shattering encore engagement. Featuring much of the acclaimed original cast, including Rasheed Hinds as the tortured Macbeth, Bob Brader as the imposing Rbiter, Carrie Johnson as the young Prime Asbury, and off-off-Broadway legend Ian W. Hill as Asbury, among others; and with longtime DMTheatrics favorite Moira Stone as the driven, powermad Femme Macbeth, and Tom Mazur, fresh from his critically lauded turn in Antony and Cleopatra, as young Small Asbury; with a completely remixed soundtrack from Youthquake! Studios and a breathtaking new visual design; writer/director Frank Cwiklik's staggering and challenging cult favorite was the event of the winter season: it's performance, it's music, it's visuals, it's movement, it's terrifying, it's moving, it's like nothing you've ever seen. Clothed in luscious latex, 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 16 year old girl, into an abyss of sadosexual torment, and her brother, Small, to join his sadoslave and confidante in a burgeoning sexual revolution that may bring about the total destruction of this ancient, yet 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. All hail BITCH MACBETH. ************ DANSE MACABRE THEATRICS PRESENTS in association with HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP BITCH MACBETH BOB BRADER * PETER B. BROWN * AMY CAITLIN CARR * BRYAN ENK * MATTHEW GRAY * IAN W. HILL * RASHEED HINDS * CARRIE JOHNSON * DAN MACCARONE * NICOLE MARSH * TOM MAZUR * JOSH MERTZ * HILARY J. PRENTICE * MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG * MOIRA STONE * ADAM SWIDERSKI * MARLA YOST Sound Design and Recording by Youthquake! Studios, NYC Produced by Frank Cwiklik and Michele Schlossberg Written, Designed, and Directed by Frank Cwiklik FIRST PERFORMANCE: Kraine Theater, 2/15/03 / LAST PERFORMANCE: Kraine Theater, 3/17/03
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