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HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, The Damnation of Faust and The Infernal Cauldron by Georges Melies (1903), and Socrates by Roberto Rossellini...
...tempt anyone to tyranny, and I sometimes think, have put the electricians in charge over there. But I only mention this as a warning: Director Emily Mann seems to have kept the play mostly honest, except for a few damned spots like the prophetic mike in the witches's cauldron or wherever the hell the unintelligible thing is hidden. Aside from these few squawky, drumming irritations, the show is true and solid, as forceful and well gestured as David Gullette in the title role...
...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 of the damned usurper...
Especially effective is Macbeth's last encounter with the witches. A green-lit trap in the stage is the cauldron in which they make their unholy brew. Simultaneously the vertical circle functions as a top view of the cauldron, changing colors constantly like a kaleidoscope. When "a baboon's blood" is added and Macbeth drinks of the brew--a fine idea--the circle turns red. Then superimposed come the three apparitions, followed by the series of eight kings as a pinwheel. It's a show of virtuosity, but it works...
...door, and Grier and Cobbs too unless they succeed in their efforts to free their psychological orientation from models of psychopathology, and come full-circle to re-definitions in conjunct with black culture. Nations consist of individuals, and for the time being, most individuals are shaped by the cauldron, or cesspool, or nest of their families, or the absence of family. No more visible chains on the body, the ultimate battleground is for the chains of definitions and fantasy that hang on the mind...