MACKERS

MACKERS!

HOLLYWOOD FRINGE PRODUCTION ANNOUNCEMENT:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mark Marcus Mark Productions
PRESENTS

MACKERS
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE…SORT OF

OPENING THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH
AT THE BROADWATER BLACKBOX

Hollywood, CA – Macbeth like you’ve never seen it before…funny!

After a jam-packed sold-out run of “ANDRONICUS!, Titus with Ten Clowns” last summer, Rose Bochner and Mat Severns are back, now with their take on The Bard’s cursed play. Known for turning classic texts into farces and puppet shows, Rose and Mat are premiering “MACKERS!” in their Hollywood Fringe debut at The Broadwater Blackbox (6322 Santa Monica Blvd). Performances are June 7 @ 10:30pm, June 8 @ 10:00pm, June 9 @ 6:30pm, June 16 @ 10:00pm, June 23 @ 6:30pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased on the Hollywood Fringe website or at the door.

Papier-mâché men and fishnet women, rock bands and iambic pentameter, come explore the murderous and the supernatural with this troupe of singers, clowns, and dramatists. No two performances will be the same!

For MACKERS!, director Rose Bochner painstakingly cut out half the play, attempting to keep only the funny stuff. Somehow the show still runs like 80 minutes with no intermission. Mining for comic gold while honoring dramaturgy and the text makes this production of Shakespeare’s classic psycho-thriller an inventive combination of the traditional and the strange.

Audiences are encouraged to have a couple cocktails and a nice dinner before arriving a little early for the live pre-show music. Get loose and rock with us as you awkwardly hug that guy your friend brought that you randomly met once and are pretty sure’s named Kyle. Let us lull you into a false sense of security and then slap you in the face with Shakespeare realness. Even people who hate Shakespeare will probably like this.

“Our hope is people will show up kinda tipsy,” Bochner said.

MACKERS! is directed by Shakespeare in the Square co-founder Rose Bochner and is Technically Directed by some grip name Mat. The cast features: Arsalan Akhavan, Carlos Chavez, Chase Mullins, Jack De Sanz, Lelia Symington, Michael Deni, Noam Tomaschoff , Timothy Paul Brown.

The design team for MACKERS! is Mat and Rose.