Actor John Rensenhouse plays Macbeth in this summer's Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. It's a play described as a "story of vaulting ambition." But Rensenhouse tells KCUR's Steve Walker, it wasn't his ambition - at first - to play the role.
By Steve Walker
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Kansas City, Mo. – Actor John Rensenhouse plays Macbeth in this summer's Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. It's a play described as a "story of vaulting ambition." But Rensenhouse tells KCUR's Steve Walker it wasn't his ambition - at first - to play the role.
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival presents Macbeth
June 14 - July 3, 2011
Southmoreland Park
Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Oak Street
Kansas City, Mo.
7 pm show talk
8 pm performances (No performances on June 20 or June 27)
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