Chase Park Theater 2 Chase Park Theater MACBETH presents by William Shakespeare Directed & produced: Karen Fort Stage Manager: Aliceson Treach Lighting design: Steve Monk Sound design: Keith Fort Fight co-directors: Dawn “Sam” Alden, Brenda E. Wiktor Sadowski, Macbeth Poster Kelly Costumer: Diane Hamm. Scenic design: 1985 Keith Fort Production Asst: Kristen Iaquinta Set Carpenter: Joel Gross. Assistant Stage Manager: Joanne Worthy. Publicity: Judy Molloy. Production running crew: Nic Fonte Props: Shawn O’Donnell MACBETH Special Effects: Brad Newlan. DUNCAN, KING OF SCOTLAND.......................................PETER ESPOSITO MALCOLM, ELDEST SON OF DUNCAN.....................................LEE PETERS DONALBAIN, SECOND SON OF DUNCAN.......................DUSHANTI HASSELL MACBETH, GENERAL IN DUNCAN’S ARMY..............CHRISTOPHER PRENTICE BANQUO, GENERAL IN DUNCAN’S ARMY........................CHARLES MUELLER MACDUFF, NOBLEMAN OF SCOTLAND....................WHITNEY DERENDINGER LENNOX, NOBLEMAN OF SCOTLAND..................................DAVID ALBRIGHT ROSS, NOBLEMAN OF SCOTLAND.........................................JEFF MCVANN ANGUS, NOBLEMAN OF SCOTLAND...................................MICHAEL BROWN MENTIETH, NOBLEMAN OF SCOTLAND..............................MICHAEL GRECO CAITHNESS, NOBLEMAN OF SCOTLAND.............................KEVIN V. SMITH FLEANCE, HEIR OF BANQUO................................................EMMA CASEY SIWARD, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLISH...............MICHAEL GRECO YOUNG SIWARD, SIWARD’S SON....................................SCOTT A. LUKE SEYTON, ATTENDANT TO MACBETH....................................DAVID ROMERO MACDUFF’S CHILDREN..............CHARLIE BAZZELL,ANNA CHRISTENSEN CAPTAIN.........................................................................KEVIN V. SMITH DOCTOR......................................................................PETER ESPOSITO by William Shakespeare PORTER...................................................................CHARLES MUELLER OLD WOMAN.............................................................EILEEN FERGUSON LADY MACBETH.............................................................CYNDI RHOADS Directed by Karen Fort LADY MACDUFF..........................................................BRENDA E. KELLY GENTLEWOMAN TO LADY MACBETH............................SYLVIA SCHLUTER FIRST WITCH...................................................................ELLEN PEACE October 20 to November 18, 2006 SECOND WITCH............................................................ELISE NEWMAN Celebrating over thirty years of Chase Park Theater! THIRD WITCH.............................................................SYLVIA SCHLUTER 4701 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago HECATE.............................................................SARAH B. MCLAUGHLIN www.chaseparktheater.org WITCH ENSEMBLE.............................EMMA CASEY, EILEEN FERGUSON, Chase Park Theater 3 Chase Park Theater 4 KEVIN V. SMITH, MICHAEL BROWN . self too, as Macbeth loses himself in insanity. They return to their cham- FIRST MURDERER..........................................................SCOTT A. LUKE bers as Macduff and Lennox are admitted at the castle gates by the SECOND MURDERER......................................................JEFF MCVANN drunken Porter. Macbeth greets them, and they ask to see Duncan. MESSENGERS.....................................KEVIN V. SMITH, MICHAEL BROWN Macduff and Macbeth "discover" the body. Macbeth admits the killing of SCOTLAND, the Twelfth Century the bodyguards as an act of passion. Duncan's sons, the princes In our ensemble, cast members may play many roles. Malcolm and Donalbain, flee to England and Ireland, fearing for their This performance will have one ten-minute intermission. lives. Subsequently, Macduff and Ross discuss that all have decided Please turn off cell phones, pagers, alarm watches, and any other noisy devices. that the two princes bribed the guards to kill Duncan. Consequently, Macbeth is declared king. Synopsis of the Play At his castle, King Macbeth contemplates how he fears that Banquo will give breed to children who may overthrow Macbeth. Macbeth con- In a thunderstorm, three witches decide to meet again on the heath vinces two men to assassinate Banquo and his heir, Fleance. Macbeth "after the deed is done." Next, a captain reports to King Duncan that frightens his wife by informing her of Banquo and Fleance's impending Macbeth beat Macdonwald in battle. Ross adds that the Thane of death. The murderers succeed in killing Banquo, but Fleance escapes. Cawdor was traitorous to Scotland during the battle. The three witches At dinner, Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost (invisible to all others), causing confront Macbeth and Banquo on their way home from the battle. They his wife to excuse the dinner guests. predict that Macbeth will be King of Scotland, and Banquo, though never king himself, will On the heath, the three witches create a potion chanting "double, beget rulers. The witches leave and Ross double, toil and trouble." Macbeth approaches and asks three ques- informs Macbeth that he has inherited the title tions. The witches answer: 1. Beware Macduff, 2. None of woman Thane of Cawdor (as predicted by the witch- borne will harm Macbeth, and 3. Macbeth will rule until Birnam Wood es). Macbeth contemplates the prediction of come to Dunsinane Hill. Finally, being king, and wonders if he should help the ghost of Banquo appears, make it happen. Malcolm reports to King showing his eight future royal off- Duncan that Cawdor admitted his traitorous spring. Lennox and another Lord deeds at his execution. The king then warmly discuss that Macduff has gone to greets Macbeth and Banquo. To Macbeth's England to convince the innocent dismay, King Duncan declares his eldest son, prince Malcolm to join arms with Malcolm, will succeed him on the throne of Northumberland and Siward Scotland. At Inverness Castle, Lady Macbeth against Macbeth. They inform learns of his encounter with the witches and King Macbeth that Macduff has decides that she'll persuade Macbeth to fulfill William Rimmer (1816-1879), Macbeth & Witches fled to England. Macbeth vows to Sir JoshuaReynolds (1723-1792), Macbeth witches his destiny through foul play. She then learns pursue Macduff’s family at Fife. show that King Duncan is coming to her castle to stay the night, strengthening Lady Macduff laments that her husband, a traitor, is virtually dead. her decision to murder Duncan. Macbeth appears, and his wife tells him Villains come and attack the Macduff family. In England, Macduff and she'll do the foul deed herself. Duncan arrives and Macbeth tells his Malcolm agree to fight together against Macbeth. Ross delivers the wife he doesn't want to murder Duncan. She talks him into it, adding devastating news to Macduff that his children and wife are dead. that they'll frame Duncan's own guards with the murder. A doctor and servant observe Macbeth's wife's sleepwalking and sleep- Past midnight, Macbeth converses with Banquo, then alone, halluci- talking about Duncan's death. Menteith, Angus, Caithness, and Lennox nates that a bloody dagger is in front of him. Macbeth then murders discuss the impending battle with Macbeth and Birnam wood. At King Duncan. He also begins hearing voices. Macbeth forgets to return Dunsinane Castle, Macbeth is informed that an army of 10,000 is near. the daggers to the king's bodyguards, so his wife does it, bloodying her- At Birnam wood, Malcolm orders his soldiers to cut the trees and use Chase Park Theater 5 Chase Park Theater 6 them as camouflage. In the castle, Macbeth learns that his wife has died The Players and Staff by her own hand, then learns, to his dismay, that Birnam wood is "mov- ing" toward the castle. The army arrives and Macbeth fights and kills DAVID ALBRIGHT (Lennox) returns to Chase Park Theater after young Siward. Next, Macduff and Macbeth fight. Macduff informs performing as Corin in As You Like It, earlier this year. He has Macbeth that he (Macduff) was ripped from his mother's womb, and thus recently played Gonzalo in The Tempest and Peter Quince in not born of woman. Soon after, Macduff kills Macbeth. Macduff then Midsummer Night’s Dream with Ground Up Theater. With First Folio’s ongoing productions in schools he plays Bottom in crowns Malcolm the new King of Scotland. Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lord Capulet in Romeo & Juliet. Thanks to www.shakespeare-literature.com for synopsis, here edited. DAWN “SAM” ALDEN (Fight Co-Director) is Artistic Director of Babes With Blades. She returns to Chase Park Theater, where she choreographed fights for Director’s Notes Midsummer Night’s Dream. "Sam" began her love affair with violence in Pittsburgh, where she was one of the founding members of GREX, a Murder. Fear. Ambition. Greed. Bloodlust. Horror. Madness. Guilt. combat/commedia/physical theatre company, with whom she fought and choreo- Anguish. Sorrow. Curses. Rage. Despair. Courage. Hope. graphed for four years. In Chicagoland, she has choreographed all manner of The beautiful poetry of this tragedy reveals life’s terror, and hopefully violence for Piven Theatre, Terrapin Theatre, Yugen Theatre, Shattered Globe, elicits the audience’s pity. We are telling an old, scary story, where the National Pasttime, Chicago Dramatists' Workshop, The Aardvark, Circle Theatre, power of witches is fearsome. At Chase Park Theater, I direct while and Shakespeare's Herd. She both fought and choreographed for Footsteps keeping in mind the audience member