An Adaptation of Macbeth is an original multimedia theatrical work that has arisen out of the Rhodope International Theater Laboratory (RITL) and the ongoing collaboration between UCLA REMAP and the Bulgarian host company, the Rhodope Drama Theatre (RDT), now combined with the Plovdiv Drama Theatre (PDT) under the continued artistic direction of Krystu Krastev.
The project represents a further step in the group’s investigations of theatrical media and their place within the Cyber Age. Based on a dialogue and experiments that began at UCLA in 2010 through interdisciplinary courses in theater, media and architecture, parts of the text were later first workshopped at the RDT and PDT during the 2011 and 2012 RITLs. Now, the media for the piece is under further development at UCLA with support from two full-time international interns from Singapore’s NUS-MDA SHAPE program. Workshops of the project also have been conducted in conjunction with the Site, Set, and Media: Puppeted Architecture course in 2011 and at cheLa in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013.
Technology and media design is being developed by Jeff Burke. The performance text (An Appropriation of Macbeth) is being written by Jared J. Stein, and is being directed by Peter Karapetkov, a Bulgarian director currently residing in Arlington, Virginia.
Workshop participants and development partners include Three Chairs Theatre (Los Angeles) and PURE Theatre (Charleston).
UCLA and Rhodope Drama Theatre & Plovdiv Drama Theatre, Bulgaria—2010-2013.
