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The MacScottish Play
By OcTeapus Productions
Written by Tom S. Tea
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Show Description
When Mark decided to direct Macbeth for his senior project, no one warned him it would be cursed. Now he's trapped in medieval Scotland with no way home, and his cast isn't faring any better.
Genre and Content
Content Warnings
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 16 and up
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Seat Reservations and Show Tickets
| Add to Schedule | Date | Time | Ticket Options | Quantity | Purchase |
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| Thu 08/01 | 10:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/03 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Thu 08/08 AD | 8:30 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/10 | 1:00 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/11 | 5:30 PM |
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Cast and Crew
Eric James
MarkEric James is a local comedian who has been performing for over fifteen years. He currently hosts Fearless Lab, a monthly comedy showcase on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. He likes lasagna and hates Mondays.
Calista Robinson
Abby/MotherCalista is ecstatic to play Abby in The MacScottish Play! Her past appearances in the fringe festival include Lucy in 4 Bisexuals and 2 Guys Named John Kill Dracula, and Dr. Jarhead in Stranger vs. The Malevolent Malignancy. In her freetime she enjoys video games, resisting the urge to spend all her money on lego sets, and spending time with her pet tarantulas.
Emma Johnson
Molly/Maiden/Fight CaptainEmma Johnson is delighted to be returning to the Fringe this year for The MacScottish Play and Secrets Under the Christmas Tree! She has a B.A. in Music from Bethel University, and sometimes people let her be silly on stage. Some of her favorite shows she has been in include A Year with Frog and Toad; Chicago; The Musical of Musicals, the Musical; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Velveteen Rabbit; Don Giovanni; La bohème. Emma currently has a play and a podcast in development.
Tom S. Tea
Poppy/CroneKnown in some circles as Minnesota's favorite deep sea horror, Tom S. Tea is very excited to be returning to the Minnesota Fringe Festival as a producer, writer and performer. These days, you can catch them lurking on Twitch twice a week (tom_s_tea) and hopefully in some new projects currently in the works. Offstage hobbies include knitting, riding bikes, and maintaining their monster claws.
Christopher Lange-Pearson
Duncan/MacDuffChris is excited to be in his first-ever theatrical production, especially given the similarities between him and the characters he portrays. When he isn’t busy attending to his warlord duties in medieval Scotland, Chris arranges music for show choirs, plays trombone in a metal band called Os Mortem, learns about niche topics online, plays chess, and supports Arsenal F.C. He’d like to give a shoutout to you.
Salsa Sterling
DirectorSalsa lives his life on the philosophy of 'Yet'. It's not that he hasn't done something, or doesn't know how. He just hasn't done it... yet. This philosophy has led Salsa down a variety of paths in his life that would otherwise have been unexplored, both in theater and in his contemporary life. Though he has directed one-act plays before, this is Salsa's first attempt at directing a feature-length production.
Amanda Jaeger
Stage managerAmanda (Manna) served as the stage manager for various burlesque troupes of the Twin Cities from 2010-2014. Her performance experience includes sketch comedy, improv insult competition, and is approaching 20 years of live street entertainment at the MN Renaissance Festival.
Jena Young
Fight choreographerJena Young first picked up a sword at the age of 8 and hasn’t put one down since. She started her stage combat training with SAFD certified instructor Don Preston in 2002, and has continued with staged, historical, and sports weapons training since, including workshops, classes, and open gyms. Jena first started choreographing staged violence in 2010, and has worked on over 20 shows, including Human Combat Chess, Klingon Christmas Carol, Highlander: the Musical, and the 2014 and 2023 productions of The Tourist Trap. You can catch her choreography in the upcoming production I'll Be Home for Kahless: The Hallmark Parody of the Season at the Phoenix Theater this winter. Jena also once came in 5th in a balloon fencing tournament.
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Special thanks
I'd like to thank the following individuals and groups for their assistance with this show:
To the patrons who crowdfunded the producer fee: Andy and Sonia Ihlenfeld, Ann and Paul Toftness, Barb Anderson, Brenda Lewis, Elsa Frettam, Gail Miller, Jamie Olson, Jan Russell, Jay Deanda, Jeanne Dewolfe, Jenai Kailey, Julie Schramke and Bill Teeple, Katie Utke, Koko Knudsen, Logan Julstrom, Michael Teeple, Ruth and John Kudlaty, Sandra and Rod Teeple, Sue Peirce, Tamara Sawyer and Trish Pool, thank you very much for your financial support that made this production possible
To Julie Schramke for providing project managing assistance in the planning stages and kept me accountable with deadlines
To Jan Russell and Good Samaritan United Methodist Church for providing a rehearsal space
To Terri Mattila Photography for the beautiful show images
To my many friends in the local theater community for acting as mentors and supporting me in the process of developing and mounting this show
To Reidan Fredstrom, whose Facebook post about a production of Macbeth where no one's allowed to say Macbeth sparked the initial idea for the script
To the original cast of the live table read of a previous version of this show at Fearless Fest 2023: Cassie Liberkowski, Christopher Lange-Pearson, Eric James, Garrick Dietze, Liz Capouch, Rian Vellichor, Rouge Zastera and Thomas Boguszewski, thank you for bringing this to life so that it could evolve into its current form
And last but certainly not least, thank you to my wonderful and talented cast and crew: Salsa Sterling, Emma Johnson, Eric James, Christopher Lange-Pearson, Calista Robinson, Jena Young, and Amanda (Manna) Jaeger. It means so much to me that you all wanted to work on this show, and I'm incredibly grateful to you all for lending your talents and expertise to this show. Without a cast and crew, a play is just words on a page, and only comes alive with other people, and it's been a magical experience watching all of you bring elements to this show. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for coming on this journey with me, and I genuinely hope I get to work with all of you again.
- Tom S. Tea, producer, writer, actor
