created and presented by Dan McCleary
with Lauren Gunn
on the Tabor Stage

January 25 – February 9, 2025

Saturdays at 7:30 pm/Sundays at 3:00 pm

generously sponsored by the Sims Family Charitable Trust

In a life buffeted by familial loss, religious persecution, censorship, plagues, political upheaval, social violence, and a dark lady, William Shakespeare perhaps felt compelled to create his cast of fully-human “villains.” Why do we still revere them, and what makes them archetypal? McCleary, who has played most of them over 35 years, explores Shakespeare’s men of deformity, abuse, honor, and prejudice – all framed by Shakespeare’s famously too-kind Macbeth, whose inexplicable horror has helped shape our modern psyche.  This enhanced Salon will feature full production values on stage.