Sunday, 12 June 2022; 5:00 PM
Macbeth
George Kent Performance Hall
119 High Street
Westerly, Rhode Island
Artistic Director Ian Watson conducts this Restoration Era (1664) entertainment featuring a cast of actors, singers and dancers. Scholar Laurence Senelick has written a script incorporating elements of Sir William Davenant’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, along with scenes from the Bard’s own version of the infamous “Scottish play.” Featuring incidental music by Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke and John Eccles.
Offered in collaboration with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston and Dan Meyers, a founding member of Seven Times Salt, specialists in 17th-century English music.
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the three witches on the heath. From Holinshed's 'Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland,' a scene later dramatized by Shakespeare in Act I, Scene III of his play. Woodcut, 1577.
The play's first appearance in print in the First Folio of 1623.
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