Chicago Puppet Fest presents:
A new and fantastic tale from Chicago’s Manual Cinema, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which a girl escapes war and flees into a dark forest. Told through shadow puppetry, actors in silhouette and live music, without dialogue or narration, The 4th Witch begins on the eve of an invasion of a small town by the local warlord, Macbeth. The girl flees into the nearby forest, where, orphaned and exiled, she is rescued by a witch, who adopts her as an apprentice. As the girl becomes more skilled in witchcraft, her grief and rage draw her into a nightmarish quest for vengeance against the warlord who killed her parents: Macbeth. The 4th Witch, an inversion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, explores themes of grief, war, generational conflict, and cycles of violence through the collateral damage left behind on the battleground.
Dates/Times:
Thursday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 23 at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 24 at 3 p.m.
Saturday, January 24 at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 25 at 3 p.m.
Sunday, January 25 at 6 p.m.
Location:
The Biograph’s Začek-McVay Mainstage
2433 N. Lincoln Ave.
Cost:
$48 Regular
$40 Students and Seniors
Ages: 12 and up
Running Time: 65 mins
ADA Accessible? Yes
Manual Cinema is an Emmy Award-winning performance collective, design studio and film/video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema tours internationally, combining handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality. The 4th Witch marks the company’s fifth appearance in the Chicago Puppet Festival.
