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COMING THIS WINTER TO GORILLA REP FANS AROUND THE WORLD:
The first Gorilla Rep film, for people where they are for free! Artistic Director Christopher Carter Sanderson has launched a fundraising campaign to film Shakespeare’s MACBETH for Gorilla Rep entirely in close-up and release it for free on youTube. This form will jump out of video-enabled phones and personal entertainment devices while also providing a chilling perspective on television and movie theater screens.
Since 1992, Gorilla Rep has provided free, high-quality productions of classical dramatic material for people where they are. Now, that mission extends to people in front of computers and iPhones everywhere with the close-up MACBETH, available scene by scene on youTube.
Gorilla Rep’s close-up MACBETH will illuminate Shakespeare’s classic text with a cast of Gorilla Rep and New York stage veterans including Robert Berliner as MACBETH, and Everett Quinton of The Ridiculous Theatre as HECATE, Frances You Sanderson as LADY MACDUFF, and Mark Greenfield as THE PORTER!
Think of it: a cast of veteran New York stage actors in the palm of your hand on your iPhone, BlackBerry or computer delivering Shakespeare’s haunting classic.
Technical details: shot on HD digital video using 35mm lenses, MACBETH will utilize studio shooting and location shooting for temperature effects and framing details. Shooting and editing are scheduled in New York City for November in roughly 28 shooting/editing days. Release is planned for January, 2010. Director of photography is Benjamin Heller of Creative Executions in New York.
Praise for Christopher Carter Sanderson’s theatrical production of MACBETH for Gorilla Rep:
“Reinventing MACBETH… Christopher Carter Sanderson, the director, apparently taking his timing from a roller coaster… makes you feel you’ve been swept up in ”a tale full of sound and fury” from which there is no escape… Mr. Sanderson’s emphasis on speed and action … provides an unusual insight into the relentless progress of the plot; this is a demonstration of fate as a flash flood, and its menace splashes into the audience….”
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
“… Sanderson and his company hold us rapt as they retell the famous story of MACBETH… the relentless forward motion of the plot is paramount… somehow at one raw and ellegant… ingenious… sinister effect… Shakespeare’s brutal couple comes alive with brutal fascination… the best performances of these roles I’ve yet encountered…””
- NYTHEATRE.COM
Photo Caption: Robert Berliner
