Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch tickets

Cameras roll, hands reach in, a shadow becomes a forest, a scrap of cardboard becomes a castle. You watch the movie get made. On a table full of overhead projectors, paper puppets, and tiny sets, the artists of Manual Cinema build Macbeth shot by shot in front of you, and a finished film assembles itself on the screen above.

The story starts where Shakespeare’s play ends. A girl loses her home and family to war, runs into the woods, and is taken in by three witches who feed her hunger for revenge on the warlord who did it. Shakespeare’s tragedy unfolds somewhere offstage; The 4th Witch keeps its eye on the child left in the wreckage, and along the way, a taste for blood passes from one generation to the next. It is strange, handmade, and beautiful.