Word: macbeth
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...Wife, the lawyer's ailing father tartly observes, "Voting that Texas hick Bush for President-that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller...
...Macbeth brought together a lot of that excitement in the face of what on the surface seemed like insurmountable odds,” he says. “It was a very transformative event for that space...
Cozzens has also been heavily involved with the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater (HRST), and in 2002 directed a successful production of Macbeth in the courtyard of Hilles Library...
Answer Key: 1) Achilles 2) 1215 3) Botticelli 4) Macbeth 5) London and Paris 6) June...
...Carmichael, who has worked on a production of Macbeth with puppets in the Adams Pool, shines when she sticks to her absurdist leanings grounded in a familiar setting. For example, there is a wonderful scene with a glowing bottle of absinthe, and another with “human art” in the Louvre dancing to oldies. She also creates a fantastic alternate universe of guerrilla paintball warfare, complete with excellent choreography that is a pleasure to watch...