Seven MFA-degree candidates of the Denver-based National Theatre Conservatory (NTC) will present Macbeth and Cloud 9 — two diametrically different plays — in the annual NTC Rep, which runs April 8-25 in The Conservatory Theatre at 1101 13th Street. Familiar to local audiences from their work with alongside the veteran members of the Denver Center Theatre Company, these students are completing this three-year Master of Fine Arts degree program with two fully-produced plays. Christian Haines, Rob Hille, Mat Hostetler, Kate Hurster, Leigh Miller, Melissa Ortiz and Kathleen Wallace have been seen this season in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s productions of The Miracle Worker, The Trip to Bountiful, Noises Off, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Christmas Carol, Dusty and the Big Bad World and Richard III. Additionally, several of these students have worked at area theatre companies including Curious Theatre Company and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Joining the students will be local favorite Geoffrey Kent, actor and fight director with many leading companies throughout the area.
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NTC Chair of Acting Larry Hecht — known to audiences for his roles in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s productions of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman and A Skull in Connemara — will direct Cloud 9, a wickedly funny, take-no-prisoners, romp that challenges standard notions of gender. It is a whirlwind tour from 1880s Africa to 1979 London that lampoons colonial and sexual repression with a gender-bent cast of characters who traverse 100 years while aging only 25 years. Part farce, part musical, all comedy, this groundbreaking play jumps time, space and conventions.
Rick Barbour, new to the National Theatre Conservatory but a faculty member at University of Denver’s Department of Theatre, will direct Macbeth, Shakespeare’s dark, supernatural tale of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Three mysterious witches fan the flames of Macbeth and his wife’s ambition with promises of power. They kill the King of Scotland and win the throne only to find themselves falling deeper into a web of treachery and deceit that ultimately spells their doom. Producing Partners: Isabelle Clark and Mike & Diana Kinsey
Both plays will be performed in The Conservatory Theatre at 1101 13th Street in the Robert & Judi Newman Center for Theatre Education. Tickets are $18 and may be purchased at 303.893.4100 or denvercenter.org. Performance dates and times are:
