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2012-2013 Season

Fall 2012

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Directed by: Lee Wilson

November 14-17, 2012 at 8 pm

Alumni Night November 13 at 7 pm

Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building

Tickets: $13 students/seniors, $17 general audience

Box Office: 519.888.4908

High School Student matinées for Macbeth on November 15 & 16

pre-show seminar 10:00 am

performance 12:30 pm

$10 for seminar and show; $8 for show only; supervisors free

To book your group, or for more information, please contact Robin Atchison ratchiso@uwaterloo.ca

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest and most intense tragedy. It was also the last tragedy he wrote after Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. His new approach to a swifter kind of action should leave the audience no time to think. Its intensity is most vividly realized in the play's language, through its repeated words and images. Shakespeare is writing about evil and he evokes it through one of his greatest creations - the character of Macbeth himself - a difficult but willing commitment to darkness. He is both our hero and our villain as evoked in the line "Fair is foul, and foul is fair". It is also a play filled with the Supernatural and images of that which is 'real' and 'not real'.

UWaterloo’s production of Macbeth explores the Scottish ballads and their fascination with rituals, that through spells, prayer, dance and music, are constantly being evoked in Shakespeare's play. Join us, as through these elements, we help lift Shakespeare's words and images, and ignite your imagination with his fascinating take on this Scottish King.

 

Winter 2013

Performance Creation (working title)

Directed by: Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae

February 6-10, 2013 at 8 pm

Studio 180, Hagey Hall

Top Girls

by Caryl Churchill

Directed by: Saúl García López

March 13-16, 2013 at 8 pm

Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building

Media contact: Janelle Rainville jrainville@uwaterloo.ca (519.888.4567 x31154)