Brian Feldman Brings William Shakespeare's MACBETH to Central Florida

You know those productions that promise...

"You've never seen Shakespeare like this!"

"It's not your grandpa's Macbeth."

"This is Shakespeare for people who don't like Shakespeare!"

Well this time - for the first time - it's actually true.

You have never seen Shakespeare performed like this before. And you never will again.

While Central Florida is already home to one of the top Shakespeare theater companies in the country, Orlando Shakes would never - not in a million years - produce what Brian Feldman has in mind.

Working with award-winning performance artist Brian Feldman, with whom she previously collaborated on an online Shakespeare adaptation called Twitter of the Shrew, award-winning playwright Irene L. Pynn will produce and direct a one-of-a-kind experience on March 20, 2017 called Brian Feldman's William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

This performance art adaptation of Shakespeare's infamously cursed play, Macbeth, will commemorate the 26th anniversary of his professional acting debut in the very play, and on the very stage where it occurred, exactly 26 years to the time and date when he played the Third Witch with Orlando Shakespeare Theater at 10 years old. Brian Feldman will now revisit Macbeth to play all 40 characters throughout the 5 acts and 28 scenes, covering all 17,121 words of Shakespeare's shortest tragedy in a manner that is unmistakably "Feldmanesque."

But why the 26th anniversary?'

The performance was originally scheduled for March 20, 2016 (the 25th anniversary of his professional acting debut). After he was brutally attacked by a gang just 50 yards from his apartment in Washington, D.C., last February, the performance was postponed exactly one year. Thankfully, Brian survived that extremely traumatic experience, permanently got out of the neighborhood he'd been residing in for nearly four years, and has made nearly a full recovery.

Unlike any production of "The Scottish Play" in its 411-year history, Brian Feldman's William Shakespeare's Macbeth will challenge you to rethink the most cursed play in the English language, and at the same time, change the course of that curse forever.

Not familiar with the plot? Stay far away. It's not your grandpa's Macbeth, remember? And if you are familiar with it, well... seek to know no more.

If you're looking for a traditional production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, stay home and watch How to Get Away with Murder.

However - if you want to experience something unprecedented in the history of theater, something far more experimental than anything Brian Feldman has ever performed, something that will be discussed forever (in hushed tones), and witch [sic] you will never forget, grab a seat. Be sure to have your earplugs at the ready, because...

"Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,

Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound

That ever yet they heard."

- Act IV, Scene III

You may not like it. And if you're an actor, you very well may hate it. However, you will never forget it.

What Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall on April 26, 1979 in New York City was to Andy Kaufman, Brian Feldman's William Shakespeare's Macbeth on March 20, 2017 in Orlando will be to Brian Feldman.

This project is supported by United Arts of Central Florida, host of power2give.org/centralflorida and the collaborative Campaign for the Arts.

Funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Support this and other upcoming Brian Feldman Projects by visiting: https://www.gofundme.com/gofeldman or https://www.paypal.me/BrianFeldmanProjects

About Brian Feldman Projects

Brian Feldman is "Orlando's greatest living performance artist."* The recipient of a 2017 Arts and Humanities Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Theatre), a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (Interdisciplinary) and three grant awards from United Arts of Central Florida (2008, 2011, 2015), he is best known for leaping off of a ladder 366 times over 24 hours (Leap Year Day), eating dinner on stage with his real life family - in front of paying audiences - over 40 times (The Feldman Dynamic) and, five years prior to same-sex marriage being legally recognized in the state of Florida, legally marrying a stranger in support of marriage equality via a game of spin-the-bottle (Brian Feldman Marries Anybody*); in addition to the more than 115 other projects he has presented since August 2003 through Brian Feldman Projects, one of North America's premiere presenters of experimental time-based art. *according to Orlando Weekly

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