One of the most influential shows in recent New York indie theater history, Bitch Macbeth has played to record houses in three of downtown theater's best known venues to rave reviews and a huge cult following.  The signature work of DMTheatrics, Bitch Macbeth one of the few off-off-Broadway works whose original papers are preserved in the prestigious Billy Rose Theater Collection at the Lincoln Center NY Public Library, its three productions providing a springboard for dozens of performers and actors who have become mainstays of the NYC indie stage.

 

This cult classic work now forms the basis of an ambitious new cycle, Triptych.  Telling the multigenerational story of the collapse and rebirth of a hypersexualized feudal culture, encompassing themes of revolution, redemption, and ambition, and possessed of a dizzying scope and scale, Triptych is both everything theater can be, and like nothing else before it.  Using performance, language, dance, combat, multi-media, all types of theater, this epic is an immersive, intensive, unforgettable work of immense scale and remarkable intimacy.

The 2008 production serves as the template for this new work, Triptych.  A series of three plays, designed to take full advantage of the uniquely tactile, immersive experience of live storytelling, each with its own distinct and deliberately unique style and feel, Triptych's shows are meant to work either as three stand-alone evenings of compelling drama, or together as a cohesive, overwhelming, once-in-a-lifetime event.  Challenging and demanding, seductive and magnetic, this is not only the most ambitious project yet attempted by playwright/director Frank Cwiklik, but one of the most ambitious attempted in NYC indie theater.

 

Using the world, language, and themes of Bitch Macbeth as inspiration, Divine Asbury chronicles the immediate aftermath of the first show's brutal events.   Still suffering from visions and tormented by the loss of her family, the newly anointed Virgin  Crown slowly loses her grip on reality, while the nascent religious movement founded in memory of her brother rapidly foments into full scale revolution, as a devious, shadowy power player effortlessly seduces both the low and the mighty into challenging the perilous status quo.  A generation passes before the events of Prime Purity, in which a young boy and girl, marked for greatness and raised on the run, slowly discover their true natures and come to reclaim the broken throne, as a reckless and unstable young princess finds herself thrust into power amidst a court full of con men, psychos, and charlatans, who don't realize their young puppet ruler is already one step ahead of them, and plotting their eventual downfall.

 

 

 

 

Proposed for a 2016 production launch, with performance dates beginning in late 2016/early 2017, funding and backers' information will be appearing on this site in the coming months.  For proposal imagery and synopses of the two new plays in the cycle, click the logos below.  For information on past productions of Bitch Macbeth, including photos and promotional material, visiit the Archives Menu on our desktop or tablet sites.  For performance/production enquiries or casting info, go to our Contact page.

 

CAST for proposal photos:

 

Macbeth - Adam Swiderski

Prime Asbury - Abby DeMauri

Femme Macbeth - Rocio Mendez

Rbiter - Cedric Jones

Aurora - Ivy Hong

Crown Asbury - Duncan Pflaster

Small Asbury - Jamie Goodnight

Copper - Lauren Hart

Wire - Alison Preece

Crown Water - Robin Friend Stift

Femme Water - Ori Bitter

 Chorus - Ori Bitter, Andy Dispensa, Dianne Kaye, Jessie Krebs, Nathan Reid, Robin Friend Stift, Angie Tennant, Allison Wick