A one-person staging of Shakespeare's tragedy, with live performance, pre-filmed scenes and an original music and sound score, as part of the Winter Fringe.
ONE MAN MacBeth is back in Scarborough on Saturday 31 October, playing at Burniston & Cloughton Village Hall. It's a one-person retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy, and it's part of the Winter Fringe, which runs from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November.
If you've seen it before, the format is the same: a single performer carries the whole thing, mixing live acting with pre-filmed scenes and an original music and sound score, with classic folk ballads woven in. It's a lot of ground for one person to cover, and the pre-filmed bits do a fair bit of the heavy lifting in bringing the different characters and settings to life while the actor stays on stage. The folk ballads add a particular kind of mood to the mix, so it's as much about the sound as it is about the lines.
This isn't the show's first time in town. It had a summer run at Beckview Studios during the Fringe festival, and for this return it's moved into the larger room at Burniston & Cloughton Village Hall. The festival manager, Catherine Goble, describes the Winter Fringe and its companion, the Winter Art festival, as platforms for local and visiting creatives to keep working through the off-season. Some of the events across the festivals are free and others are paid, and many of the venues are on the smaller side.
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ONE MAN MacBeth is one of the paid bookings, and it's playing on Saturday 31 October at Burniston & Cloughton Village Hall, right in the middle of the Winter Fringe's run from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November.
Date
29 October – 1 November
19:30
Recommended Age
+14 years
