{"id":9501,"date":"2026-08-18T07:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/event\/hip-to-hip-theatre-company-presents-macbeth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:09:51","slug":"hip-to-hip-theatre-company-presents-macbeth","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/event\/hip-to-hip-theatre-company-presents-macbeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip to Hip Theatre Company presents: Macbeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Hip to Hip Theatre Company presents<\/b><b>: Macbeth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Sunday, August 2 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">(Rain or shine)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> | 4:30 &#8211; 6:30pm<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Free with RSVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/hip-to-hip-theatre-company-presents-macbeth-tickets-1986568458737?aff=oddtdtcreator\">here<\/a>.<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Join us for an afternoon of Shakespeare in our park. Bring a picnic basket and come early for a kids and classics workshop followed by the performance of Macbeth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>4:30pm: Kids &#038; the Classics Children\u2019s Workshop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Kids &#038; the Classics is the companion piece to Hip to Hip\u2019s program of &#8220;Free Shakespeare in the Parks.\u201d This free interactive workshop is offered 30 minutes before every performance, and is designed for children ages 4 to 12. It gives children a chance to interact with the text by previewing the characters and situations, and creating links between the text and their own lives through theatre games and close reading of text. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>5:00pm: Macbeth<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition for power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Hip to Hip Theatre Company<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptohip.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Hip to Hip Theatre Company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> was founded in 2007 by Queens-based actors Jason and Joy Marr, who wanted to share with the community their enthusiasm for great plays, the works of Shakespeare in particular. The company is dedicated to stimulating and developing interest in the theatre arts in underserved communities by providing free, family-friendly, professional productions of popular classics, and free theatre workshops for children, in public spaces.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":9502,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-category":[],"class_list":["post-9501","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}