BLOOD OF MACBETH (ZOMBIE JOE’S UNDERGROUND): 100% – SWEET
LemonMeter | Jul 24, 2012 | Comments 5 |
Michael Blomgren in “Blood of Macbeth” at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre. Credit: Zombie Joe.
SWEET
So if you’re looking for a traditional MacBeth look elsewhere. If you want a 50-minute darkly sexual, inappropriately funny, thrill ride…don’t miss this one.
Anthony Byrnes – KCRW
SWEET
It too is full of sound and fury, enacted collectively but signifying a manic swath of angst. It spits in our faces and winks. It defies analyzing. It’s just something to be felt. You can’t leave this tiny room without feeling something. And that’s not bad.
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly
SWEET
I’m not sure if this is meant more for laughs or for chills, but it gets quite a few of both reactions, thanks to the razor-sharp discipline of just about everyone on stage.
Don Shirley – LA Stage Watch
SWEET
Not for everyone, to be sure. But among other things this production makes one of the best pieces of performance art I’ve seen in a long while.
David MacDowell Blue – Night Tinted Glasses
SWEET
The Blood of Macbeth is full of humor, wit, mystique and MANY twisted sisters who take on story points to move the drama along to condense this production down to its one hour length. Very well done!
Lorenzo Marchessi – NoHoArtsDistrict
SWEET
BLOOD OF MACBETH is not for the faint of heart. It pokes you slyly with its violence to see if you’re paying attention even as it lulls you into submission with the delicate French melody “A la claire fontaine.” It taunts you with its muscularity and laughs at itself before you do. And in the tightly contained space of Zombie Joe’s black box it is an uninhibited world of madness that will haunt you for days.
Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld
BLOOD OF MACBETH
Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre
4850 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hlywd.
Fridays, 8:30 p.m.
EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Tickets: (818) 202-4120
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We loved it, the show is artistic and wonderful. NoHo arts review was the best for us locals.
http://shakespeareinla.com/2012/07/27/macbeth-like-youve-never-seen-it-before-at-zombie-joes-underground/
Wow this seems to be a hot show, will it get awards? Now we must go see what the hub bub is all about. Amy
http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/
One of the funnest show’s i’ve seen in a long time. Must see. I think it ends soon…. GO.
BLOOD of MACBETH is now playing FRIDAYS at 8:30pm into SEPTEMBER!
Extended by Overwhelming Demand!
FRIDAYS @ 8:30pm
AUGUST 24 – SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Review Quotes:
LA Bitter Lemons says 100% sweet
“an uninhibited world of madness”
“Blood of Macbeth is not for the faint of heart.”