Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ginn's production employs more conventional mystiques, making simple and obvious reversals of sexual roles: Madame Irma's "visitors" are played as vain effeminates, sexless transvestites who, when gathered together in the last act, remind one of the opening of Macbeth played in drag. Similarly, Irma is conceived as the Madam of an answering service, a nervous dike devoid of femininity and consequent feminine insight. This is supported by the text often, particularly in the dialogue with Carmen, but it annihilates any credibility to her stated relationship with Georges, the chief of police. Genet's contradictions work better...
CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt., from July 22 through Sept. 21. Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part 2, are the Shakespearean entries, counterpointed by Waiting for Godot...
...cocked for"what's American in America," he brings an outsider's enthusiasm to the U.S. scene, putting old landmarks in a new light. "On a cold foggy night," he wrote of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, "the bridge struts wail like the witches in Macbeth...
...Hill, R.I., to initiate a summer dance workshop. Lady Bountiful they called her, and so it seemed during the next two years when she helped finance the successful Jeffrey tours of the Near East and Russia. As time went on, however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey refused, and so they parted. Broke and unable to offer his danc ers any future, he lost all but two of his 26-member troupe, 14 of them...
...Konigsburg (Atheneum; $3.95). Two children run away from their suburban home and hide for a week in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They bathe in the museum fountain, sleep in a 16th century bed, and mingle with tour groups. Also recommended: Mrs. Konigsburg's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth, a story of two girls who spend the school year pretending to be witches...