Video: Minutes to Showtime, Cast Talks About Mounting ‘Macbeth’ at Shakespeare FestivalStudents, alumni perform at Green Hill Park as part of Holy Cross’ Redfeather Theatre For the fourth year in a row, students at Holy Cross are starring in and learning what it takes to mount an outdoor Shakespeare festival. On July 22, Holy Cross’ Redfeather Theater Company kicked off this year’s season with Macbeth at the Memorial Grove Amphitheatre in Worcester’s beautiful Green Hill Park. The company’s second production, Much Ado About Nothing, opens Aug. 4. For complete performance information, visit the Redfeather Web site. Students work alongside professional actors, members of the Worcester community, and Holy Cross alumni, and under the direction of Edward Isser, professor and chair of the theatre department at Holy Cross. Macbeth received four out of four stars from the Telegram & Gazette. Minutes before showtime, students and alumni talked about what goes on behind the scenes and the excitement of performing at the Worcester Shakespeare Festival. Watch the video (total time: 02:33) » More media coverage: • “Practice ensures bloodless battles; Redfeather cast in fighting form,” Telegram & Gazette, July 26 Pictured: Danny Goodman '11 plays Lennox in the Redfeather Theatre production of Macbeth. Related Information: • Theatre |
July 29, 2009|nm