BATTLEFORD — Battlefords Community Players (BCP) is adding a little fun to its end-of-season production this year.
On May 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30 and 31, the group will stage the comedy The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth. The May 25 and 27 shows are performance-only, while the rest are dinner-theatre productions.
The play is written by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr.
Donna Challis, BCP executive producer, is looking forward to the show.
This is the first time BCP has presented this comedy.
"This is a knock-off on Shakespeare," she said. "The Farndale ladies are a group of people trying to put on a show, and they have chosen to do Macbeth in this case."
The BCP describes the show as the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society’s mount of “yet another assault on the classics with a startlingly original production of Macbeth, staged to get them to the Welwyn Garden City finals. Under the carefully mascara'd eye of adjudicator George Peach, all events conspire hilariously against them.”
"It's a spoof," said Challis. "They [the characters] chose to do Macbeth and they are doing it the best they can."
Challis said the show is a big production, with all nine BCP actors wearing several different costumes.
"Everybody plays several parts," she said.
The show is being directed by a new director with BCP.
"It has lots of complicated stuff going on in it," Challis said. "It's coming along really well. I saw a rehearsal the other night and I thought: 'Good for these guys. They are working really hard, and it's coming together really nicely.'
"It's meant to tickle the funny bone, but also you will hear a little bit of Shakespeare," she added.
