Ninefold's WYRD: THE SEASON OF THE WITCH Debuts At The Pact Theatre

By: Marianka Swain May. 28, 2018

Ninefold's WYRD: THE SEASON OF THE WITCH Debuts At The Pact Theatre Image

The Ninefold ensemble launches into its atPACT two-year residency by debuting their hotly anticipated new work Wyrd: The Season of The Witch at the PACT theatre, Erskineville in June 2018. Audiences are invited to witness a story of malevolent ambition and uncanny horror performed with Ninefold's hallmark power and precision.

Wyrd: The Season of The Witch draws on the tropes of urban legend to rework Shakespeare's Scottish Play into a striking new narrative that follows the rise and fall of a powerful warrior identified only as 'Our Lady.' Her insatiable ambition makes her a target for the malevolent Wyrd Sisters who have their own designs for the infamous Scottish noble. The high energy and tightly choreographed performance will feature Shakespeare's original text cut from Macbeth, reordered and stitched back together with toe-tapping 50s pop songs, powerful choral speaking and high energy movement. Wyrd is a truly unexpected performance of the Bard's 'unlucky' play.

Wyrd brings together Ninefold's core creative team: the 'transcendent, compelling and powerful' Shy Magsalin as director, (The Tragedy of Antigone, Room, member of the International Suzuki Company of Toga); Liam O'Keefe (The Tragedy of Antigone) as lighting designer; production design by Victor Kalka; and an original score by Melanie Herbert (Room, member of Splinter Orchestra).

PACT Artistic Director, Katrina Douglas, says "Ninefold is one of the most exciting emerging companies in Sydney and their new work Wyrd is an intense, innovative and powerful performance. I'm looking forward to presenting the premiere season at PACT.'

The cast is made up of the current members of the Ninefold ensemble: Aslam Abdus-samad (Tragedy of Antigone, Debris - LZA Theatre); Erica J Brennan (The Tragedy of Antigone); Jessica Dalton (Blackstrap Molasses -Sydney Fringe); Victoria Greiner (Tragedy of Antigone); Matthew L Heys (Woyzeck - Pasvolsky Studio); Melissa Hume (Bluebeard - Lies, lies and Propaganda); Gideon Payton-Griffiths (Tragedy of Antigone); Shane Russon (Three Sisters - Sport for Jove); Brigid Vidler (Do Something Else Old 505 Theatre); Tabitha Woo (A Westerner's Guide to the Opium Wars); Paul Musumeci, Luke Yager and Stella Ye. The ensemble train in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training, a highly rigorous discipline designed to develop a highly articulate body capable of expressing and communicating with power and precision.

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