Word: birnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...green light, posed behind Macbeth's chair like Christ in The Last Supper. And the procession of silhouetted kings that show Banquo's line to be are reassuring because young Malcolm seems too wimpy to prove right royal, after having been put on at the end. With Birnam Wood, alas, all we get are a few streaky branches being figurative on the backdrop screen, and I do have to quarrel with the wild but unconvincing head that attends the witches in their first scene, gets bubbled in the cauldron, and then shows up again in Macduff's arms as that...