Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Shakespeare Festival occurs in a converted Baptist church before audiences that have sometimes achieved levels of unsophistication reminiscent of the sort of people who watched Shakespeare's plays when they were originally performed. "He went thataway," a bloodthirsty young man once shouted over the footlights to Macbeth, indicating where the thane might corner King Duncan. But this year the Atlanta group has a really outstanding Hamlet in Jonathan Phelps, whose considerable technical facility is matched by a scholarly understanding of his subject, resulting in a performance of unusual balance...
...DIEGO. In Balboa Park, the replica Globe Theater contains productions this summer of Measure for Measure. Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing. The first is notable chiefly because the actors wear codpieces, but San Diego audiences do not comprehend the play's intricate fornications. The second features a good performance by Charles Macaulay, a discovery from television. And the third is memorable because it was directed by B. Iden Payne, 82, a formidable figure in professional and bush theater for more than 60 years. His Much Ado is literal, straightforward, underdirected and onedimensional, which will indicate to any former...
SHAKESPEARE IN CENTRAL PARK (Louisville, Ky.): Shrew, Macbeth and As You Like It (all free...
IRISH HILLS PLAYHOUSE (Onsted, Mich.): Richard III, Shrew, Twelfth Night, Macbeth and Comedy of Errors...
...GLOBE THEATER (San Diego): Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure...