Gillian N. Humiston

Babes With Blades, Chicago's all-female stage combat theater company, will present the world premiere of "The Double" by BWB ensemble member Barbara Lhota .

Babes With Blades, Chicago's all-female stage combat theater company, will present the world premiere of "The Double" by BWB ensemble member Barbara Lhota .

Babes With Blades, Chicago's all-female stage combat theater company, will present the world premiere of "The Double" by BWB ensemble member Barbara Lhota .

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production ofWilliam Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman. Enter a Scotland wracked by treachery and possessed by supernatural forces - a kingdom where loyalty is fatal, ambition is madness, and no motivation is pure. This production features mask work and broadsword-driven stage combat. The cast will be joined by youth actresses from The Viola Project, a Chicago organization offering Shakespeare performance workshops for girls 8-18 (violaproject.com).

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman. Enter a Scotland wracked by treachery and possessed by supernatural forces - a kingdom where loyalty is fatal, ambition is madness, and no motivation is pure.

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman. Enter a Scotland wracked by treachery and possessed by supernatural forces - a kingdom where loyalty is fatal, ambition is madness, and no motivation is pure.

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman.

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman.

Babes With Blades inaugurates its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with Chicago Dramatists network playwright Mark Burns' 'Land of the Free,' directed by Babes With Blades ensemble member Beth Cummings.