Untimely Ripp’d
Untimely Ripp'd: an immersive macabre Macbeth experience
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Event Details
Continuing our Halloween production tradition, Kentucky Shakespeare presents a new experience from the creative team that brought you our 2022 hit sold-out production of Enter Ghost. At Kentucky Shakespeare’s Old Louisville Headquarters, utilizing silent disco headphone technology, audience members will move throughout an immersive world premiere production inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Kentucky Shakespeare commissioned playwrights Diana Grisanti and Steve Moulds to create this hour-long sensory event, conceived by the pair with director Matt Wallace.
Dates: October 2-27, 2024
Times: 7:00PM and 9:00PM Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2:00PM and 4:00PM on Sundays
Location: Inside Kentucky Shakespeare’s Headquarters, 616 Myrtle Street, Old Louisville
Tickets: $28 per ticket
NOW SOLD OUT – to get on waiting list, email here
During your ticket purchase you will have option to make a donation to Kentucky Shakespeare. Donate $20 and take home a commemorative limited edition Untimely Ripp’d T-Shirt! You will receive one shirt per each $20 donation/increment. We will email you in advance regarding size preference, and you will receive it in a Kentucky Shakespeare bag from our House Manager when you leave the experience!
Audience Info: Running time is approximately one hour with no intermission. During some of this experience audience members will wear headphones. This production includes short stretches of walking and standing, with periodic sitting stations. If you need further information, please email info@kyshakespeare.com.
Audience Reviews from our 2022 sold-out production of Enter Ghost. an immersive haunted Hamlet experience:
“…a modern-day Old Louisville ghost story… The design work is particularly important here, and everyone is at the top of their game… As for the performances, they are uniformly excellent… Enter Ghost is moody and engrossing, not jump out of your seat scary… It forces you to see the overly familiar with fresh eyes. For a company devoted to the works of William Shakespeare, this is a most crucial part of their mission… lingering dread to leave the theatre with you, bereft of the cozy conventions of theatre etiquette.” – Keith Waits, Arts-Louisville review
“If you don’t have a ticket to Ghost from @kyshakespeare, you missed out! Experimental, fun, modern. I kept thinking, this is something I would see in New York. So happy that Louisville has this. As always with KY Shakes, amazing actors”
—@abbydlong
“Went to see ENTER GHOST at @kyshakespeare this evening and it was SO TERRIFIC. Really enjoyable, innovative, immersive, spooky. I love that our local Shakespeare company does such cool stuff. Go see it if you can.”
—@taraEanderson
“@kyshakespeare keeps taking incredible risks this season, and they pay off every time! ENTER GHOST was one of those shows that left me wanting to create theatre. I’m so thankful I had the chance to experience this exciting, bizarre, and unnerving piece of experimental theatre!” – Neill
“We enjoyed Enter Ghost so much that in the car on the way home we reserved tickets to see it again!” – @cronalicious.lwg
“Brilliant, fun and spooky! We are so fortunate to have our KY Shakespeare.” – Adam
Special thank you to production partner:
Untimely Ripp’d is made possible through support from Ball State University’s Aspire program, Fund for the Arts, Givaudan, the Kentucky Arts Council, and Don Stevens & Libby Marbury.
Thank you to our production sponsors!
Special thanks also to Showtime Sign and Design.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What are the health and safety requirements?
While masks are not required, we encourage anyone who chooses to wear a mask to do so throughout all or part of the production if you prefer. We will send updates if there are any changes.
If you are not feeling well or have been around anyone with COVID-19 in the past two weeks, please do not attend this production. Please reach out to us if you need to reschedule.
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How long is the experience?
60 minutes, without an intermission. During most of this experience audience members will wear headphones. This production includes stretches of walking and standing, with periodic sitting stations. If you need further information, please email info@kyshakespeare.com.
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Where do I park?
The production takes place inside Kentucky Shakespeare's headquarters at 616 Myrtle Street, Louisville, KY 40208, one half block from Central Park, across the street from WaterStep. Kentucky Shakespeare has approximately 15 free parking spots available on the side of the building, and there is also ample free street parking. If parking on the street, out of respect for our Old Louisville neighbors, we ask that you not park in front of the residential buildings on the east end of Myrtle Street. There is ample space for street parking on Myrtle Street in front of Kentucky Shakespeare, Aztec Flooring, and WaterStep, as well as on the Central Park side of 6th Street.
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Can I take photos/video?
During the performance, the taking of video and photography is strictly prohibited.
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How do I get a commemorative, limited edition Untimely Ripp'd T-shirt?
At ticket check out you will have the option to make a donation. You will receive a limited edition Untimely Ripp'd T-Shirt per each $20 donation/increment. We will email you in advance regarding size preferences, and you will receive it in a bag from our House Manager when you leave the experience.
If you did not make a donation and would like to, please visit kyshakespeare.com/donate and make a note which performance you are attending, and we will contact you regarding size and type shirt preference! You may also email info@kyshakespeare.com.
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Is the production suitable for children?
We believe this production will be PG or PG-13, recommended for ages 13 and up due to some stage violence and potentially frightening sounds and images. For specific show content, please contact the office at info@kyshakespeare.com or 502.574.9900.