Eco-Macbeth: Nature Fights Back - Practice-based-Research

About This Event

Macbeth as a play reveals Nature disordered, offering a salient lens for viewing our shared era of ecological crisis. This Practice-based-Research endeavor will constitute a series of collaborative convergences (workshops, interviews, and experimental stagings). For Shakespeare, the posited purpose of playing is “to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to Nature” in order to reflect “the forms and pressures of our time,” and Macbeth’s intricately interwoven textual ecosystem affords uniquely rich terrain for study & praxis in illuminating environmental devastation specifically ensuing from insatiable political appetites.

Featured Guests

• Ingrid Kapteyn (choreographer, dancer - Resident Director for Sleep No More)
• Chris Marino (Associate Professor, Theatre Studies Dept. UNC Wilmington, Artistic Director of Alchemical Theatre of Wilmington)
• Tanmay Dhanania (actor, writer, educator based in Goa, India)
• A J Sage (artistic director/founder, House of Ithaqua theatre company)

Co-sponsors

• The Bean Fellowship, Performing & Media Arts