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"Riveting theatre... a triumph of style and context, a nonstop onslaught of images and sounds and movement that confront and amuse and astound... there are moments when it honestly astonishes with its power and weird beauty... Cwiklik is clearly a director of budding brilliance and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next... IT'S SPELLBINDING." -- Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com Sex is currency. Love is foreign. Language is fractured. Life is short and merciless. All hail BITCH MACBETH. A somnambulistic, sadomasochistic kaleidoscope and sex and violence, Bitch Macbeth established DMTheatrics as a serious contender and laid the groundwork for the style quickly emerging from the collaboration of director Frank Cwiklik, producer Michele Schlossberg, and their talented crew of artists and actors. This breathtaking, draining S&M mutant Shakespeare presented a world of warring families, trapped in a sadistic, erotically charged world with no hope and little respite. A 16 year old princess sold into slavery... Her tormented older brother, attempting a coup through (literally) sexual revolution... Their haunted father, his kingdom crumbling around him... The cold and distant father figure to this callous world, the Rbiter, who reduces human life to concepts and statistics... The citizens and royalty of this world, from gothic pansexuals to free love beatniks to rigid fetishists... And in the middle of it all, Macbeth, doomed to play out his life to a script he can't quite understand, and his Femme, mad with ambition and crazed with fear, driving everyone to a final, bloody climax. DANSE MACABRE THEATRICS PRESENTS BITCH MACBETH HOUSE MACBETH: Macbeth Rasheed Hinds Femme Macbeth Jennifer Clark HOUSE ASBURY: Asbury Ian W. Hill Small Asbury Douglas Scott Sorenson Prime Asbury Carrie Johnson Other Thorn Adam Swiderski HOUSE WATER: Water Matthew Gray Femme Water Christiaan Koop Cinna Amy Caitlin Carr HOUSE WRECKAGE: Wreckage John Mazurek Femme Wreckage Christiaan Koop OVER: Rbiter Bob Brader Aurora Sarah Jane Bunker Auctioneer Peter B. Brown Copper Michele Schlossberg Wire Nicole Marsh FUCKBAR: Rosenstern Bryan Enk Guildencrantz Matthew Gray Strippers Amy Caitlin Carr, Christiaan Koop, Nicole Marsh CHORUS: Amy Caitlin Carr, Daniel Koenig, Christiaan Koop, John Mazurek Set Construction: Berit Johnson, Christiaan Koop, John Mazurek * Technicals: Ian W. Hill, Berit Johnson * Stage Manager: Berit Johnson PRODUCED BY FRANK CWIKLIK AND MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG * WRITTEN, DESIGNED, AND DIRECTED BY FRANK CWIKLIK FIRST PERFORMANCE: Access Theater, 1/5/01 / LAST PERFORMANCE: Access Theater, 1/28/01
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