Theatre professors perform at Kansas City Fringe Festival

April and Robert Hubbard, Northwestern College theatre professors, performed their new two-person adaptation of “Macbeth” at the Kansas City Fringe Festival July 21–31.

April, who played Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s classic tragedy as a graduate student at the University of South Dakota, adapted the script to a two-person show during the summer of 2015, again casting herself as Lady Macbeth and casting her husband in the title role. Robert directed a Northwestern College production of Shakespeare’s original last November.

In “MacDuo,” which is what April titled her version, the two Hubbards play the murderous husband and wife as well as their victims, the avenging Macduff and the three witches.

Representing the theatre company they founded, 3 Crazy Sons, the Hubbards were among 108 performing groups presenting 475 shows at the KC Fringe Festival. They performed “MacDuo” four times in Kansas City’s Mesner Studio theatre over the course of the festival.

Experienced actors, directors and playwrights, the Hubbards have performed at fringe festivals across the U.S. Fringe festivals started midway through the last century in Edinburgh, Scotland. Today they are held around the world. Fringe festivals aim to enable both established and emerging artists to perform their work and to make the performances affordable and accessible to a broad audience.