Millbrook’s Macbeth Performance

Led by Assistant Director Robbie Bisconti ’18, Stage Manager Kavya Nandigama ’17, Technical Directors Sylvia Tan ’15 and Oliver Kish ’16, and Costume Designers Mary Ma ’15 and Crystal Tam ’15 over 30 students worked diligently since September to create a stunning production. From lighting design to choreography, students were heavily involved in every aspect of production.

When they first began putting together the performance, they thought they would be purist and traditional in their approach. However, as they began table reads, discussions, and paraphrasing the text, they began to take their vision to a broader view. They were not just in 11th Century Scotland. They were finding parallels in current events such as seeing evidence of power struggles, senseless violence, and the endless cycles of suffering that plague our world.

It seemed to them that those cycles had always existed and that there was no end in sight. This influenced their decision to "drag a rake" through the time periods, arriving in a place where the supernatural dwells and where time moves unreasonably quickly towards a violent end that could perhaps have been predicted, or prevented, had those at risk taken a different path, or made a different choice.

Make sure to check out our Millbrook in Motion page to watch the performance, and our online photo gallery to view many excellent photos!