Macbeth - Day 15 - Wed, Aug 27th

We'd purchased tickets to see Macbeth, presented by Creation Theatre  The venue?  The Gardens of Lady Margaret Hall - one of the campuses that make up the University of Oxford.  It was a short 1.3 miles walk down Botley Road. 

"All over Oxford we find unusual spaces – stories aren’t set in theatres so we don’t put them there. Castles, antique mirror tents, college gardens, bookshops and factories… we’ll go wherever the stories take us, and so far we’ve taken over 500,000 people with us.  18 years, 54 shows, half a million audience members aged 5-95…we are Oxford’s own Creation Theatre Company."

Seating was at round tables - a small audience - with the main "stage" up a 2' hill.  During the performance they used the entire space in front of us including the doorways into the hall, sometimes leaning out the upstairs windows and on the roof.  They'd taken some poetic license and used military costuming from WW1 to make it more modern. 

Play started at 7:30pm and ended at 10pm so it was also interesting to watch as dusk hit, then darkness.  They had wonderful lighting and a fantastic sound system.  Overall a fantastic performance and a unique experience.

Click this link  http://www.creationtheatre.co.uk/show-one/macbeth to Creation's webpage for Macbeth to read more and to especially watch their  Flickr slideshow with professionally taken performance pictures where you can see the costumes, venue, lighting and upper window scenes.