Bruce Horak (Hemmer) is a long-standing theatre performer. He and some longtime colleagues have come up with an innovative and eccentric Goblin: MacBeth.
Beyond its initial run in Bruce’s hometown of Calgary, the production is scheduled for a two week run at the Stratford Festival in October and is just starting a run at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach festival.
From the Stratford Festival listing…
“Goblin:Macbeth is a blast of pure creative genius. Unpredictable, unrestrained and uninhibited, it is the stage equivalent of a theme park funhouse ride.” Calgary Herald
Enjoy the Scottish play like never before with Goblin:Macbeth, coming to the Meighen Forum!
In a tale of three goblins stumbling upon the complete works of William Shakespeare, Rebecca Northan, Bruce Horak and Ellis Lalonde blend improvisation, fantasy and tragedy in an electrifying and fresh interpretation of the classic play. When goblins come to the Stratford Festival, anything can happen!
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I personally never buy the fridging a character to ‘make it real’ argument, but it seems to have a great deal of sway with a certain generation of writers.
Unfortunately the EP/writers arguing this are almost always heterosexual cisgendered males and the characters fridged are almost always women, LGBTQ+ or in the case of Hemmer, a person with disability.
And like most systemic bias, they just don’t seem to see the issue. After the backlash from killing off Culber in the first season of Discovery, Akiva Goldsman (and Alex Kurtzman who signs off on the season arcs), should have been more hesitant to repeat the situation with another representation character. I don’t doubt their progressive values, but this can only be understood as an enormous blind spot.