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From tragedy to farce on local stages ● Cloverdale has a board game, Windsor a fairy tale, the Raven has Shakespeare Staff Report
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‘Double, double toil and trouble …’ Just in time for Halloween, a coven of witches and a band of soldiers take the stage at the Raven Theater in ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth.’ — MORE PAGE 12
Healdsburg joins in No Kings protest ● Local Indivisible groups drive national movement By Christian Kallen It was a balmy Saturday last when up to 2,500 people lined
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Healdsburg Avenue between the freeway exit and the Mill Street Roundabout, the participants chanting and chatting with one another about the common emergency everyone found themselves in. It was the follow-up to two earlier demonstrations—Feb. 21, also President’s Day, and June 14, also Flag Day. Aligning protests against the Trump administration with national patriotic holidays is no accident: the Red, White and Blue was highly visible all along the
route as participants declared their love of country, the Constitution and the rule of law. Tyra Benoit, one of the voices of Climate Action Healdsburg, helped manage the crowd at the Roundabout, keeping people off the middle of the traffic circle. It worked for the first hour, but the numbers eventually overwhelmed the Roundabout. She carried a sign reading, “If you ever wondered what you would have done in — More on page 5
Though seasonal summer al fresco performances of Shakespeare’s plays are a regular occurrence from Ashland to Santa Cruz, staging his works during the “off-season” (the other nine months) is more unusual. That seasonal segregation of the Bard’s work is broken this month at the Raven Performing Arts Theater, where the Raven Players begin a three-week staging of one of his most direct and powerful works, The Tragedy of Macbeth. It’s also one of the most popular of his plays, reliably one of the five moststaged in the English-speaking world (along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night). “I think there’s a reason Shakespeare starts the play with
the witches, and you know right away, these are the puppet masters,” said director Steven David Martin. “I have always thought that this is the witch’s world, and we are living in it.” The audience for Macbeth will be seated on the stage, as has been the case with several previous Raven productions. The cast includes Matthew Witthaus as Macbeth, Katie Watts-Whitaker as Lady Macbeth and other familiar actors including Tim Shippey, Declan Hackett and Jeanette Seisdedos. ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ will be staged weekends from Oct. 24 – Nov. 9 at the Raven Theater. Tickets $10 (students), $25 (adults) at raventheater. org/events/macbeth. — More on page 5