Something wicked this way comes! The Rustic Mechanicals are proud to present Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Macbeth as part of their 2025 Vaulting Ambition Tour! The Mechanicals are excited to return to the beautiful space, having brought their production of The Tempest there in
2024. Founded by Celi Oliveto in the summer of 2014, The Rustic Mechanicals is the only troupe of actors in West Virginia 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 De Witt, 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.
Geoffrey Steele, part of the Salem Art Foundation, is excited to be. The Mechanicals back to thir lovely station-Mechanicals to Salem, West Virginia, for their performance of Macbeth. By setting the play in a modern-day world, they show how themes like power, ambition, and consequences are still important today. Their work brings Shakespeare to life in a way that feels real and meaningful. In a town like Salem, where storytelling and history matter, we're thankful for their effort to make live theatre exciting, accessible, and poignant."
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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