Director • Translator • Playwright
Rob Melrose
Named one of the Top Ten stage productions of 2005
by The San Francisco Bay Times
Photos by Rob Melrose
"The Cutting Ball Theater's new production explores the pair's childlessness by playing up the often-dismissed fact that they likely just lost a baby. The first time we see Lady Macbeth, for example, she's alone in an empty nursery with a bassinet and abandoned dolls. Also, the dialogue of the three witches on whom Macbeth relies for details about his future is interpreted here as fragments of his mourning wife's conscience, even though the witches themselves are mirror images of him."
-Karen Macklin
The SF Weekly
"Director Rob Melrose and Cutting Ball Theater take a bold, innovative approach in a slightly cut, intriguingly rearranged, inventively staged version of Shakespeare's great tragedy that looks at the Macbeths as the parents of a dead child and downplays much of the witchcraft."
-Robert Hurwitt
The San Francisco Chronicle
MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
The Cutting Ball Theater
Rob Melrose, Artistic Director
May 6 - July 16
Directed by Rob Melrose
Produced by Adriana Baer
Set Design by Michael Locher
Costume Design by Raquel Barreto
Sound & Music Design by Cliff Caruthers
Lighting Design by Rob Melrose
Stage Manager Corinne Kane
Assistant Stage Manager Laura Davis
Graphic Design by Debra Singer
Featuring Garth Petal, Paige Rogers, Keith C. Davis, Andrew Harkins, Daniel Krueger, David Sinaiko & Jack Sale
"This Macbeth is intriguing, intellectually involving, visually imaginative, and -- best of all -- funny."
-Chloe Veltman
SF Weekly
MACBETH - THE CUTTING BALL THEATER
Rob Melrose © 2013