The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1458 Wednesday, 29 May 2002
[1] From: Jan Pick <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 20:26:53 +0100
Subj: Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial Interpretations
[2] From: Brian Willis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 10:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subj: Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial Interpretations
[3] From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Subj: Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial Interpretations
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From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Subject: Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial Interpretations
Further suggestions about directorial choices in Macbeth should be sent
directly to Alan J. Sanders at <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
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From: Brian Willis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 10:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 13.1429 Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial
Comment: Re: SHK 13.1429 Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial
Interpretations
>I've often thought that "Macbeth" would be great
>staged in a Wall Street
>corporate office. You know, Duncan is the CEO,
>Macbeth a VP, and LM a
>social climber.
Branagh has been considering just this setting for the play on film for
some time. Whether it comes to fruition is still to be seen...
Brian Willis
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From: Jan Pick <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 20:26:53 +0100
Subject: 13.1429 Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial
Comment: Re: SHK 13.1429 Re: Macbeth Discussion -- Directorial
Interpretations
'Macbeth' is one of the most difficult plays to stage - mostly because
it is so deceptively straighforward! As a veteran of many, I'm bored to
tears with the 'modern relevant' touch. This is a play about deep
superstitions and beliefs - Orson Welles Voodoo Macbeth was said to be
stunning - set in a society that still believed in the supernatural -
don't try to excuse the weird sisters as many productions do, or reduce
them to silly old women, the 'witches' are the real key to a successful
'Macbeth'. Actually, now the 'Macbeth' I really want to see is the
Irving 1880s, with 100s of witches - Shakespeare meets Lloyd Webber, but
I don't suppose I ever will!
Jan
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