Eldritch Theatre presents

MacBeth: “A Tale Told by an Idiot”

By Weird William Shakespeare
Conceived & Performed by Eerie Eric Woolfe
Directed by Doomed Dylan Trowbridge

Designed by Mad Melanie McNeill
Lights by Ghoulish Gareth Crew
Stage Managed by Sinister Sandi Becker
Produced by Evil Emma Mackenzie Hillier

The return of Eldritch Theatre’s dementedly inspired, one-man MacBeth! Shakespeare’s blood-soaked king, with weird witches, viscera-sopped murders, nightmares of madness, and terrifying occult prophecies crashing head on with our ghoulishly giddy bag of timorous trickery! Performed by a solo actor using a diverse range of multi-sized puppets, masks, and parlour magic, cosmic horror, and lowbrow pop, this Mad Mackers is a is equal parts high tragedy and cartoonish lunacy!

“A cartoonish Grand Guignol spectacle!” – Istvan Reviews

An artist at the peak of his bizarre and bonkers powers!” – Drew Rowsome

Dora Award Nominations for Outstanding Performance, Outstanding Set Design, Outstanding Costume Design

***Warning: Fog Machine, Blank Verse, Witchery, Bloodshed & Murther

May 7 – 18, 2024
At Eldritch Theatre’s Haunted Red Sandcastle
922 Queen Street East

7:00PM Doors/7:30 Showtime
3:00PM Doors/3:30 Showtime

General Admission $35
Tight Wad Tuesday : $25
Masquerade Wednesday $25 (Covid Masks Required)
At the Door $40
Sundays : Pay What Pleases You
*DISCOUNTS FOR INNER SANCTUM MEMBERS*

90 minutes, no intermission

HEPA FILTERED THEATRE

*Daytime Student Matinees Available, email emma@eldritchtheatre.ca for more details

 

Eric Woolfe in Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot
Photos by Adrianna Prosser

Mesmerizing Macbeth
CRITIC’S PICK

“Shakespeare‘s Scottish play gets a Weird Tales meets Looney Toons treatment in MacBeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot (Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭). Eric Woolfe‘s mesmerizing Eldritch Theatre Company adaptation takes his unique artistry to a whole new, bloody good level.” – Glenn Sumi

“Expectations were of Cthulhuian proportions. But nothing could have prepared one for what transpired…It is a potent mix of horror, comedy, Las Vegas flash and Shakespearean scholarship… a unique and remarkable experience.”

Drew Rowsome

“…as chilling as it is silly. Eldritch Theatre has charmed me once again with their whimsically creepy shenanigans.”

Istvan Reviews

Macbeth – A Tale told by an Idiot is an accelerating 80-minute roller coaster ride…you’ve been transported to a world of sorcery and silliness. You’ve laughed . . . frequently and hard. You’ve been surprised and, often times, delighted.”

Sesayarts Magazine

A new and unique production unfolds this week at the always alarming and provocative… Shakespeare’s bloody and shocking “Macbeth” is the perfect vehicle for this theatre always awash in horror, magic, trickery and ghastly puppetry.”

Our Theatre Voice

“I’ve been to several Eldritch shows at this point and yet still there are new and different magical illusions every time I walk through the door, always expertly catered to the story at hand, and I cannot applaud them enough for their ingenuity.”

A View from the Box

“This Lady MacBeth is one of the most striking, dramatic, stylish, controlled, haunted and driven Lady MacBeths, alive or otherwise, I have ever seen. Humour and drama are serious business and both are beautifully realized in MacBeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot.” – Lynn Slotkin

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