The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival, the region’s only free performing arts festival, returned for its eighth year this past summer with Taming of the Shrew performed at The Green in uptown Charlotte.
This month, the festival moves indoors for Macbeth, playing Thursday, August 15 through Sunday, August 25 at the Booth Playhouse in Founders Hall (130 N. Tryon Street).
Christian Casper and Gretchen McGinty will lead as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Casper most recently worked with Charlotte Shakespeare as the director of Taming of the Shrew. McGinty played Cordelia in the Charlotte Shakespeare's 2011 production of King Lear, and Grace in the company's 2012 production of Opus.
Charlotte Shakespeare's artistic director Elise Wilkinson will direct the show.
This staging of Macbeth is appropriate for children ages 12 and up. Tickets are required at the Booth Playhouse and are available at the door beginning one hour before each show. Admission is still pay-what-you-can with a suggested $5 per person, but any amount is accepted. Seating is still first-come, first-served except for reserved donor seats.
Pre-show festivities will entertain audiences beginning 45 minutes prior to each performance.
Interactive, educational workshops will follow the Saturday matinee on August 17 and 24 on stage. Appropriate for young people and adults, these workshops offer a chance to dive further into the text, to interact with the actor playing Macbeth and to ask questions about the production.
For more information on Macbeth and the Charlotte Shakespeare Festival, click here.
Macbeth show dates and times:
Thursday, Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 16 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 17 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 18 at 3 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 23 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 24 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 25 at 3 p.m.
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