Category: The Pact Theatre

SheShakespeare presents MACBETH, by William Shakespeare, at PACT Theatre, Erskineville 29th August – 8th September. MACBETH is the second Shakespeare that this company SheShakespeare as presented. The first was AS YOU LIKE IT. If the Mission of SheShakespeare is to provide an opportunity for some actors to perform a role in a text that has usually excluded them, because of gender assignment, then 15 young women have had a go with this production of MACBETH. In doing so Director, Shelley Casey, has adapted the play and changed all the male gender references to female. King becomes Queen; Lord becomes Lady;…

  Ion Nibiru presents Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness at The Pact Theatre. “Ion Nibiru is a new production company dedicated to breaking the mould and offering fresh perspectives in creative enterprises. Co-founded by Rod Byrnes and Ray Sullivan…. along with Zac Jardine and a working relationship with Production Company Darqhorse (headed by John Ma)”. They state later in their program notes, “It is not a different direction; rather, an alternate perspective.” Frank McGuinness is an Irish playwright whose most recent work, GRETA GARBO COMES TO DONNEGAL, has just opened in London (January). Besides his own plays…