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- When: Nov. 3, 2026
- Location: Austad Auditorium, Browning Center
- Tickets Required
Manual Cinema is an Emmy Award–winning performance collective, design studio, and film production company. The 4th Witch is a new story inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth about a girl who escapes war and flees into a dark forest.
Told through shadow puppetry, actors in silhouette, and live music (without dialogue or narration), The 4th Witch begins on the eve of an invasion of a small town by the warlord Macbeth. The girl escapes the invading army and flees into the nearby forest. Orphaned and exiled, she is rescued by a witch who takes her in as an apprentice. As she becomes more skilled in witchcraft, her grief and rage lead her into a quest for vengeance against Macbeth, the warlord who killed her parents.
The 4th Witch, an inversion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, explores grief, war, generational conflict, and cycles of violence through the collateral damage left on the battlefield.
Recommended for ages 12 and up.