City Shakespeare's Film Adaptation of MACBETH, INNOCENT SLEEP, to Screen in L.A.

The Independent Filmmakers Showcase, a Los Angeles-based film festival, announced this week that their 2016 lineup will include The City Shakespeare Company's adaptation of MACBETH, titled INNOCENT SLEEP. The film will be screened at The Beverly Hills Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., 90211, on June 1 at 8:10 pm. Tickets available HERE.

Following the company's visceral, site-specific stage production of MACBETH in a Santa Monica warehouse in 2013, CityShakes Artistic Directors Allison Volk and Brooke Bishop sought to heighten intimacy between Shakespeare's characters and the viewer by exploring the story further on film.

According to Volk, who wrote INNOCENT SLEEP, "The film focuses in on Acts I and II of the source text, exploring the emotional dark corners of the night the King is murdered." In a revolutionary hybrid approach, the script marries bits Shakespeare's original text with contemporary dialogue. Bishop calls the film "a piece of feminist speculative fiction that puts the audience in the shoes of Lady Macbeth, and asks the viewer what lengths they would go to have it all."

INNOCENT SLEEP stars a cast of veteran regional Shakespeare actors like Gregory Linington (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company), Colin Martin (Shakespeare Orange County), and Leslie O'Carroll (Colorado Shakespeare Festival).

INNOCENT SLEEP is now available to pre-order on Vimeo On Demand. For more information and to follow the film's progress, visit www.InnocentSleep.com.

Watch the trailer for INNOCENT SLEEP here!