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...Pirate King's celebrated solo ("...and it is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king!"), O'Neill deals out another wild-card. The king sings his first two choruses gesturing nobly with his broadsword, hoisting it into the air, as pirate kings always...
...good effort goes for naught, however, because of Richard McElvain's one-dimensional Macbeth. This is a pouty shlep of a thane--Felix Unger with broadsword. Again, it works fine in Act Five, when his "life's but a walking shadow," but we are bored mercilessly beforehand. How this guy gets to be king is certainly beyond comprehension. If he has vaulting ambition, then Ronald Reagan has naturally black hair...
Even greater than pride in place is a strongly developed sense of family-not merely the nuclear one, but the broadsword virtues of the clan. This is partly because many Southern families have lived in the same territory for five or six generations, growing, spreading, developing deeper ties. To a largely rootless and mobile nation, children or grandchildren of the immigrant experience, this familial feeling seems foreign. Explains Spalding: "It is comforting for a Southerner, in a strange, hostile and wicked world, to know who he is, that someone will send his daughter a wedding present or come...
Armed with his statistical broadsword, Wallenberg whacks at the Failure and Guilt Complex branch by branch. He demolishes the "explosionists" in the demographic branch with specifics on the falling birth rate that is replacing the population explosion ("if indeed it ever existed") and "may well prove to be the single greatest agent of an ever increasing, ever wealthier middle class in America." For the benefit of the F & G C's sociology faculty, Wallenberg marshals facts to support his thesis that "American workers are engaged in more interesting, more skilled and more productive work than any other workers...
Francesca Annis makes an interestingly brittle Lady Macbeth, but Jon Finch's Macbeth seems to be consumed by tuberculosis. In the climactic battle with Duncan, Finch looks as if he was having some trouble hefting his broadsword. But the supporting cast (Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride) is fiery, and Polanski manages most of the violent confrontations with brio...