Word: banquo
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Occasionally, however, Williams carries these devices a little far, making Macbeth too much fun for its own good. (The conversion of the witches' cauldron to an electric blender is one of these times.) The comic direction of some of the more intense moments of the script--like when Banquo's assassins bumble around like idiots and foul up their assassination attempt in the spirit of Inspector Cluseau--all lessens their ultimate impact...
John Michael Gibson renders a strong performance as Banquo, and Douglas Rosenberry's Duncan is also excellent. Wes Hill is hilarious as the hapless Porter who simply can't hold his liquor...
...Schrag is the little tough guy, like Edward G. Robinson or James Cagney. Hatch is slimy and smooth-talking. Alexander shows Roma's fierce loyalty to Ui, even when Ui betrays him, but he is also believably vengeful when he returns as a ghost to haunt Ui, a la Banquo...
...succumbed to the disease; the Murphys' adolescent son died there shortly after working on an etching of his visitor, Ernest Hemingway. But many others returned to life on the outside, often as uneasily as Percy's protagonist in The Moviegoer, "no more able to be in the world than Banquo's ghost." Like the disease it fought, Saranac was eventually undone by antibiotics. But for some 70 years, it was a rare arena that managed to encompass the arts of healing and high drama. So does the book that bears its name...
Wise is successful both as confused and somewhat dippy Baker in the first play and as Banquo in the second. Paul Goldstein is convincing in serious roles in both plays: Polonius/Laertes in the first and Duncan/Macduff in the second...