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Goblin: MacBeth - Bruce Horak and friends have been taking a very unique show on the road (www.cbc.ca)

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Bruce Horak (Hemmer) is a long-standing theatre performer. He and some longtime colleagues have come up with an innovative and eccentric Goblin: MacBeth.

Beyond its initial run in Bruce’s hometown of Calgary, the production is scheduled for a two week run at the Stratford Festival in October and is just starting a run at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach festival.

From the Stratford Festival listing…

"Goblin:Macbeth is a blast of pure creative genius. Unpredictable, unrestrained and uninhibited, it is the stage equivalent of a theme park funhouse ride." Calgary Herald

Enjoy the Scottish play like never before with Goblin:Macbeth, coming to the Meighen Forum!

In a tale of three goblins stumbling upon the complete works of William Shakespeare, Rebecca Northan, Bruce Horak and Ellis Lalonde blend improvisation, fantasy and tragedy in an electrifying and fresh interpretation of the classic play. When goblins come to the Stratford Festival, anything can happen!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I still don’t understand why they wrote him off of SNW.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The explanation from the EPs is somewhat lame, and exposes some awkward systematic abelism, despite best intentions.

They intended to have a new character die to support Uhura’s character development. They ended up creating a great Aenar character when they asked Kirsten Beyer to suggest a potential alien. Then they cast a legal blind actor to play him who was so much more capable in his craft than they had hoped for.

But they were fixed in their idea that it was necessary to fridge an important character to develop Uhura (🤦🏽‍♀️).

Which leaves the EPs searching for other roles for Bruce.

On the other hand, if Bruce Horak becomes the multi-character Jeffrey Combs of current Toronto Trek productions, it would be an important advance for representation in its own right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I hate it when they kill a character just to develop another, it's so lazy and cliché. Definitely one of my pet peeves in media, along with 'the plot only works because characters refuse to communicate'.

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