Four years ago, when Anne proposed we partner on a re-thinking of Lady Macbeth, we had no inkling that a global pandemic would have such a profound impact not only on our process, but on the story itself. Anne and I share a background in physical theater, so I’d assumed we’d be creating something in which the staging carried the bulk of the storytelling.
It’s been a surprisingly fruitful creative process, and we’re so eager now to collaborate with Local Theater Company in coming back to our “home turf”: in a room with performers and audience all together laughing, feeling, sharing.
But with Covid requiring us to slow down and move online, our attention pivoted to dialogue and plot. We’d pool our money and hire actors we loved from across the country to sit in their own kitchen or on the beach or what-have-you and talk to us about the play. We were able to add Shakespearean scholar Hadley Kaminga-Peck-- who’s a professor out of state-- to the writing team.
It’s been a surprisingly fruitful creative process, and we’re so eager now to collaborate with Local Theater Company in coming back to our “home turf”: in a room with performers and audience all together laughing, feeling, sharing.
