Something wicked this way comes! The Rustic Mechanicals are proud to present Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Macbeth to the Pocahontas County Opera House as part of their 2025 Vaulting Ambition Tour! The Mechanicals have made this quaint opera house a regular tour stop, having last performed The Tempest there in 2024. Founded by Celi Oliveto in the summer of 2014, The Rustic Mechanicals is the only troupe of actors in the state dedicated to touring the works of William Shakespeare and other classical playwrights.
Murder! Prophecy! Witches! …and, surprisingly, Love! The power of a prophecy tempts the ambitious General Macbeth and his passionately persuasive wife to accelerate their road to royalty. Something wicked this way comes when the real-life husband and wife founders of the Rustic Mechanicals play the original power couple whose vaulting ambition unravels their love and their lives.
Jim Warren, director of Macbeth, is ecstatic to bring the magic of a tragedy to life in a new, unique way. “What an awesome challenge we have in carrying the torch (so to speak!) of doing Macbeth using Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions to gross-out, freak-out, surprise, delight, and scare our audiences without light boards, sound boards, or electric fog machines. We will create a live, acoustic soundtrack: creepy sounds/voices that will help an audience imagine the heath, the castles, the backdrop for the battles in ways that Shakespeare’s company did for the play’s first audiences… and underneath it all has to be love! If our production is not filled with big love, the story, the tragedy doesn’t work. I am completely bored by and intolerant of theatre, tv, film where I don’t care about characters.”
Directed by Jim Warren alongside Voice & Text Coach Bridget Rue Esterhuizen, Fight Choreographer Millie Omps, and Dramaturg John S. Shirley, with Production Design by Jason A Young, Production and Tour Management by Niki DeWitt, and Technical Direction by Seret Cole the Mechanicals featured in this production include Jason A Young, Sarah Young, Joshua Brooks, Stephen Phillips, Sinead Tobin, John Spellman, Aaron Harris, Seret Cole, Eric Jett, and Daisy Deaton.
Ryan Krofcheck, the Marketing Director at Pocahontas County Opera House, is more than excited to welcome the Mechanicals back. “We're thrilled to keep Shakespeare's legacy alive in our community! We can’t wait to welcome the Rustic Mechanicals, and just a week later, our kids' theater camp will begin. Our hope is that the children in the camp will be inspired to eventually join the Rustic Mechanicals or another theater group. We also hope their performance will encourage other kids to join the camp in the future!”
The Mechanicals will continue to tour Macbeth throughout the fall months for schools and educational purposes. The Mechanicals focus on making Shakespeare’s plays accessible to modern audiences by utilizing dynamic and extreme casting techniques paired with Shakespeare’s staging conditions. For more information on booking these touring shows, you can email
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