Word: confinable
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...performance, Freinkel has created a play with more internal conflicts than even Macbeth himself. Given the problems of producing college Shakespeare, perhaps she should have adopted a less reverent attitude and an even more experimental appraoch. Like its accursed protagonist, this production of Macbeth seems "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in to saucy doubts and fears...
...play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so steeply raked that it must be difficult to move about on. The cast must, to use Macbeth's words, feel "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd." Perhaps the Lake Forest stage is unusually small; but if so, some adjustment ought to have been made here by pushing the set back or even chucking it entirely in favor of a bare stage with movable furniture and props...
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