Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gusto, letting the lines pour forth in torrents and saying things in several ways instead of choosing the best. The result was a ripsnorting melodrama that offered Elizabethas what horror movies provide us today. Richard III lacks the subtlety, artistry and development that we see in his nearest relatives, Macbeth and logo. And the whole play moves straightforwardly, putting few difficulties in our way except for a confusing genealogy...
Saturninus appropriates Tamora (Pat Galloway), Queen of the Goths, for his empress. A Lady Macbeth-to-be, Tamora seethes with ambition and an acrid hatred of Titus, who had her eldest son killed in a ritual sacrifice. When she takes Aaron (Errol Slue), a Moor, for her lover, the carnage begins. Despite his color, Aaron is Iago's twin in his motiveless malignity. He plots to have Titus' daughter Lavinia (Goldie Semple) raped, and her hands cut off and her tongue ripped out. Then the heads of two of Titus' murdered sons are unshrouded before the father...
...riotously funny re-do of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, a scatological, bourgeois-baiting, 19th century travesty of Macbeth...
Power as gluttony permeates a scene in which Mere Ubu (Miriam Goldschmidt in the Lady Macbeth role) entices an army officer (Bruce Myers) to join her and Mère Ubu (Macbeth) in their conspiracy to kill the king. The most ambitious work in the cycle is the least affecting. The Ik is based on Colin Turnbull's 1973 book, The Mountain People, the story of a Ugandan tribe that lost its hunting grounds. Ravaged by starvation, they became beasts, losing all traces of human compassion...
...full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent version of Macbeth: "By William Shakespeare. Titles by Anita Loos...