Quick peeks at #HFF26’s “Women on the Fringe” by Fringe Femmes who are behind the scenes this year. Click Here for all Check-Ins
WHO: Coco Blignaut
WHAT: The Real Lady Macbeth
WHERE: Actor’s Company (Let Live Theater) 916 N. Formosa Ave
WHY: Because if you don’t “chronical your life, the world will immortalize you. Because they do not know you.” Because you cannot control how the world sees you, you can only control how you show up in the world. Because the women of history have been written through the male gaze. Because the journey Coco crafted flips the script and centers on the emotional complexity, empathy, and poetic nature of the previously vilified Lady Macbeth.
Because Lady Macbeth’s motivation is solely to protect her family and her ancestral homelands of Fife and Moray from the Machiavellian Duncan, who killed her brother, her father, and her first husband. While pregnant, she marries Duncan’s former general, Macbeth, who has returned to Moray to claim it for his own. Because sometimes love is found in unexpected places. Because even after decades of peace, misfortune ultimately occurs.
HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14061
