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Fashion Over Form: Macbeth Strikes a Pose

The Scottish Play has certainly made its rounds this year, and understandably so. Macbeth is a play that deals with (among a slew of other things) personal and political ambition, uncertain times, an affected state of the union,...

Fate Proves Overpowering in Goold's Bloody Macbeth

Bloody and gorrific, Rupert Goold leaves his audience with images to remember. He also tempts fate just a little in his modernist, technologically-inclined, Stalin and so much more-inspired production of the Scottish Play,...

Fort Point Finally Sees Battle in a Monumental Macbeth

In this case, Shakespeare, the play’s not everything. The We Players, whose motto is to present “site-specific performance events that transform public spaces into realms of participatory theater,” present yet another maxim:...

Macbeth

Period written: 1605-1606 First known performance: 1611 (Globe Theatre, London) Three witches anticipate a meeting with Macbeth. King Duncan hears a report of how his generals Macbeth and Banquo defeated the Norwegians...

Macbeth in Japan? Too Cool.

The first challenge in adapting Macbeth to a Japanese setting would be immediately apparent to most bardolators and film students alike: it must work hard not to just be Throne of Blood. The challenge of any reviewer sent to see...

Macbeth Proves Tricky at the Folger

The Folger Theatre’s production of Macbeth starts off with a murder. Not just any murder, mind you, but the gory knifing of the house manager who prettily reels off announcements...

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 1

Scene 1 A desert place. (Three Witches) Thunder and lightning. Enter three...

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 2

Scene 2 A camp near Forres. (King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, Attendants, Sergeant, Rosse, Angus) Alarum...

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 3

Scene 3 A heath near Forres. (Three Witches, Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, Angus) Thunder. Enter the three...

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 4

Scene 4 Forres. A room in the palace. (King Duncan, Lennox, Malcolm, Donalbain, Attendants, Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, and Angus)

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 5

Scene 5 Inverness. Macbeth’s castle. (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth’s Messenger, Macbeth) Enter Macbeth’s...

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 6

Scene 6 Before Macbeth’s castle. (King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Rosse, Angus, Attendants, Lady...

Macbeth: Act I, Scene 7

Scene 7 A room in Macbeth’s castle. (Sewer, Servants, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth) Hoboys, torches. Enter a Sewer and...

Macbeth: Act II, Scene 1

Scene 1 The court of Macbeth’s castle. (Banquo, Fleance, Macbeth, Servant) Enter Banquo, and Fleance with a...

Macbeth: Act II, Scene 2

Scene 2 The court of Macbeth’s castle. (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth) Enter Lady...

Macbeth: Act II, Scene 3

Scene 3 The court of Macbeth’s castle. (Porter, Macduff, Lennox, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, Malcolm, Donalbain)

Macbeth: Act II, Scene 4

Scene 4 Outside Macbeth’s castle. (Rosse, Old Man, Macduff) Enter Rosse with an Old...

Macbeth: Act III, Scene 1

Scene 1 Forres. The palace. (Banquo, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Lennox, Rosse, Lords, Attendants, Servant, Two Murderers)

Macbeth: Act III, Scene 2

Scene 2 Forres. The palace. (Lady Macbeth, Waiting Gentlewoman, Macbeth) Enter Macbeth’s Lady and her Waiting...

Macbeth: Act III, Scene 3

Scene 3 Forres. A park near the palace. (Three Murderers, Banquo, Fleance) Enter three...

Macbeth: Act III, Scene 4

Scene 4 A room of state in the palace. (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Rosse, Lennox, Lord, Attendants, First Murderer, Ghost of Banquo)

Macbeth: Act III, Scene 5

Scene 5 A heath. (Three Witches, Hecat) Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting...

Macbeth: Act III, Scene 6

Scene 6 Forres. The palace. (Lennox, Lord) Enter Lennox and another...

Macbeth: Act IV, Scene 1

Scene 1 A cavern. (Three Witches, Hecat, Macbeth, First Apparition, Second Apparition, Third Apparition, Kings, Banquo, Lennox)

Macbeth: Act IV, Scene 2

Scene 2 Fife. Macduff’s castle. (Lady Macduff, Son, Rosse, Messenger, Murderers) Enter Macduff’s Wife,...

Macbeth: Act IV, Scene 3

Scene 3 England. Before the King’s palace. (Malcolm, Macduff, English Doctor, Rosse) Enter Malcolm and...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 1

Scene 1 Dunsinane. An anteroom in the castle. (Doctor of Physic, Waiting Gentlewoman, Lady Macbeth) Enter a Doctor of...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 2

Scene 2 The country near Dunsinane. (Menteth, Cathness, Angus, Lennox, Soldiers) Drum and Colors. Enter Menteth,...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 3

Scene 3 Dunsinane. A room in the castle. (Macbeth, English Doctor, Attendants, Servant, Seyton) Enter Macbeth,...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 4

Scene 4 Country near Birnam wood. (Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Siward’s Son, Menteth, Cathness, Angus, Lennox, Rosse,...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 5

Scene 5 Dunsinane. Within the castle. (Macbeth, Seyton, Soldiers, Macbeth’s Messenger) Enter Macbeth, Seyton,...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 6

Scene 6 Dunsinane. Before the castle. (Malcolm, Siward, Macduff) Drum and Colors. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, and...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 7

Scene 7 A part of the field. (Macbeth, Young Siward, Macduff, Malcolm, Siward) Enter...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 8

Scene 8 Another part of the field. (Macbeth, Macduff) Enter...

Macbeth: Act V, Scene 9

Scene 9 Dunsinane. Within Macbeth’s castle. (Malcolm, Siward, Rosse, Thanes, Soldiers, Macduff) Retreat and...

Not Your King James' Macbeth

"To beguile the time, look like the time," as Lady Macbeth tells her husband. Director Conall Morrison takes her words for a thousand pound as he reverses the originally perceived heroism of Macbeth’s prowess in battle i...

One Hundred Minutes of the Beautifully Horrible

In the small black box theater, the upstage wall slides apart as the softly dreary lights rise, underlined by vaguely familiar music that recalls chilly, Northern Britain. Gentle fog frames three women emerging in shapeless brown dresses, echoing...

Prophesy Points to Possibilities in the Scottish Play

Australian director Gale Edwards is working her way through Shakespeare’s canon, and after twenty years of direction in the US and abroad, Edwards delivers a dark, yet forward thinking production of The Scottish Play that tries to...

San Francisco Audiences Need to Catch Up to a Post-Modern Macbeth

Thomas Hampson “is a tough nut to crack.” Bass and fellow Ohioan (go Buckeyes!) Raymond Aceto, who plays Banquo in directors David Pountney and Nicola Raab’s production of Verdi’s

The Store-front Scottish Curse

There is a stereotype that runs rampant throughout the Los Angeles theatrical community. The idea that most productions are merely actor showcases under the guise of dramatic entertainment is almost an assumption—an...

Unsex Me Here

Directors seem to face difficulty when attempting to make productions of Macbeth theatrically interesting, trying all sorts of things to get audiences notice them. I have seen Macbeths set in the Melbourne...

Witch's View

Normally, opening on a dark and stormy night would be considered a bad omen for a theater production, but it may prove to be a good thing when the play you’re performing begins, “When shall we three meet again? In...

Witches Rule in Macbeth's Court

The Scottish Play has always been viewed as fast and furious, with some thought that scenes may have been lost along the way.  Character development is at a minimum, yet we still find ourselves connecting to and...