Price:
$15.00 – General Admission
$10.00 – UFV Students

Date and Time:
March 27, 28 & 29, 2025 – 7:00 pm

With the highly anticipated directorial return of associate professor Bruce Kirkley, Macbeth, will be performing from March 20 – 29, 2025. This will be the second production of UFV Theatre’s 2024-2025 season and in addition to its run at UFV Abbotsford’s Blackbox Theatre, it will also be performed in Chilliwack at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre’s Rotary Theatre.

Presented by the UFV SOCA Acting and Production Classes, Macbeth is a masterwork in tragedy by William Shakespeare, written in 1623. Adapted to be set in a dystopian future, the play follows the rise and fall of a brave general driven to murder and madness by his ambition and a prophecy. The play explores themes of power, guilt, and the corrupting influences of unchecked ambition.

The student cast features Bren McPhee, Sabrina Morgan, Owen Muller, Harshit Sharma, Isabella Dimanno, Jash Vashi, Taya Viger, Lydia Gunnink, Chloe Loewen, Han Wood, Hazel Franklin, Tavleen Grewal, Bill Trieu, and Niya MacKay.

The student design team includes Olivia Sommer (set designer), Ashleigh Henczel (head of props/builder), Thea Vanagteren (projection designer), Ryen Lavoie (sound designer), CJ Rafter (costume designer), Kimberley Perkins (assistant costume designer), and Jessica Blanchard (hair and makeup designer). They are supported by production crew members Sara Gray (stage manager), Marie Brideau (assistant stage manager), Starla Rorison (costume assistant/dresser), Avrey Jantz Krahn (costume assistant/weapons master), Sukhsagar Singh (sound operator/actor understudy), Aftab Randhawa (lighting operator: in partnership with The Workplace TASK Program).

Production students are mentored by UFV production class instructor and technical coordinator Jared Raschke, wardrobe manager Heather Robertson, and production manager Giuseppe Condello.

UFV SOCA website