Macbeth 2005

Macbeth Redux in 2005 with some new ideas in staging and style. We produced Macbeth at the Theatre Centre, by now at 1087 Queen West - an industrial, dungeon-y kind of environment that Soheil felt would allow the design team to move in a new direction and explore the full architecture of the space. While we’d previously staged the play with the audience all around, now they sat on 2 sides. The spare set and props remained, as did the fabric. Ian Lefeuvre’s orginal music also remained from the 1995 production and he was once again nominated for a Dora Award for Best Sound Design.

In a preview from NOW, Peter and Soheil reminisce about 15 years of productions and the reasons for bringing Macbeth back to Toronto for the company’s 15th season. And in an attempt to convey the significance of life stages and the idea of bringing maturity to the role of Macbeth (certainly playing Macbeth in one’s mid-20s resonates differently for an actor than it does a decade later) poor Peter gets billed as disillusioned. Really, he’s a fairly content guy (although the millennium bunker fiasco of ’95 might have still been on his mind).

Meanwhile, 5 years on, the SUN was still exhibiting a strange penchant for spices.

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Creative Team

Direction: Soheil Parsa

With: Juana Awad, Peter Farbridge, Stavroula Logothettis, Karim Morgan, Brendan Murray, Alon Nashman, Soheil Parsa, Yashoda Ranganathan and Lyon Smith

Producer: Laurel Smith

Assistant Direction: Setareh Delzendeh

Lighting and Installation: Stephan Droege

Costumes: Andjelija Djuric

Original Music: Ian Lefeuvre

Additional Sound: Thomas Payne

Stage Management: Elaine Lumley .

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