Something wicked this way …
“The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles brings the spirit of the Halloween season to life with floating daggers, tapestries that come to life, bleeding walls and a dark hallway not to be missed”
-Broadway World
“Walls drip blood; daggers rain from a ceiling; an apparition speaks. Theatergoers might find themselves in a huddle of witches or sitting at a banquet” - Los Angeles Times
“A stunning new way to experience Shakespeare. Haven’t had so much fun at a theatre in years!” - audience member
“My husband is a Shakespeare aficionado-he said it was the best production of Macbeth EVER” - ticket buyer
“I love this production! I first experienced it last year and was happy to return!” - audience member
“The staging was amazing: moving from room to room and being up-close-and-personal with the action” - audience member
“Not only were we placed inside the action, we were also surrounded by a living text—immersed in Shakespeare’s nighttime poetry of revenge and paranoia.” - audience member
“The small audiences make it personal and actively engaging” - audience member
“The aura of gloom wonderfully permeated the whole play” - audience member
“I loved descending into the bowels of hell” - audience member
“The students and teachers said it was the best field trip they’ve ever had!” - assistant principal
LA's most haunting and visceral experience this Halloween season re-unites the imagination of Shakespeare Center LA’s Veterans in Art team with retired Disney Imagineer Chris Runco (Haunted Mansion®, Pirates of the Caribbean®) and Royal Shakespeare Company director Kenn Sabberton. The Shakespeare Center’s The Tragedie of Macbeth: An Immersive Experience surrounds the audience in a 360° environmental theater spectacular filled with walls that bleed and spirits that come to life. Journey from cursed Scottish moors to ill-fated ancestral castles in the SCLA downtown building as Macbeth’s ruthless ambition is laid bare in an intense, hair-raising experience.
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*This show moves up and down stairs and uses ramps and inclines.
photos by Eddie Sakaki
SUPPORT
SCLA’s Veterans in Art program participants build the sets and run theatre operations for all performances. Learn how you can support Veterans In Art here.
Veterans In Art is supported by:
Ahmanson Foundation
Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles
Land of the Free Foundation
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Hollywood Canteen Foundation
The Capital Group
Wells Fargo Foundation
SUMMARY OF THE PLOT OF the tragedie of MACBETH
Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king, and kills more people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more hauntings and deaths.
SHAKESPEARE CENTER LA and MACBETH
In 2017 SCLA produced a Year of Macbeth programming including lectures, a haunted house, and co-producing multiple inspired multi-media and site-specific works created by emerging artists in Los Angeles. In the fall of 2018 and 2019 Shakespeare Center LA’s Veterans in Art team combined imaginations with the former Royal Shakespeare Center director Kenn Sabberton and retired Disney Imagineer Chris Runco to create an acclaimed 360 degree, intimate environmental theatre spectacular called The Tragedie of Macbeth: An Immersive Experience in which audiences of all ages journeyed with the actors from cursed castles to witches heaths to moors inside Shakespeare Center’s downtown building experiencing the haunting and bloody tale of Macbeth. The show was slated for 2020 but the global pandemic prevented its production. Artistic Director Ben Donenberg’s production of Macbeth: A Virtual Live-Action Graphic Novel continues Shakespeare Center LA’s relationship with the eerie and haunting tragedy.