Director • Actor

Paige Rogers

"Paige Rogers brilliantly portrays a complex Lady Macbeth.  The audience will alternatively despise her and yet somehow sympathize with her.  An incredibly well-modulated performance.

-Tom W. Kelly

The San Francisco Bay Times

"The Cutting Ball Theater's new production explores the pair's childlessness by playing up the often-dismissed fact that they likely just lost a baby. The first time we see Lady Macbeth, for example, she's alone in an empty nursery with a bassinet and abandoned dolls. Also, the dialogue of the three witches on whom Macbeth relies for details about his future is interpreted here as fragments of his mourning wife's conscience, even though the witches themselves are mirror images of him."
-Karen Macklin
The  SF Weekly

Named one of the Top Ten stage productions of 2005
by The San Francisco Bay Times

Macbeth - The cutting Ball Theater

"Director Rob Melrose and Cutting Ball Theater take a bold, innovative approach in a slightly cut, intriguingly rearranged, inventively staged version of Shakespeare's great tragedy that looks at the Macbeths as the parents of a dead child and downplays much of the witchcraft."

-Robert Hurwitt

The San Francisco Chronicle

"This Macbeth is intriguing, intellectually involving, visually imaginative, and -- best of all -- funny.

Paige Rogers' Lady Macbeth is even-keeled and purposeful. Her mouth and gaze set tight, she's not much given to bouts of hysteria. Even the business of scrubbing her hands in her sleep to try to wash away the guilt of her crimes feels systematic, poised. Whether mourning the memory of her dead child while standing next to an empty crib, waiting passively for her husband's return from the battlefield, or plotting to kill the king, she's as ashen-faced and expressionless as a china doll. Her actions almost feel premeditated, as if they're driven by some deep, primeval force beyond her powers of comprehension."
-Chloe Veltman
SF Weekly