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...senior has approached HRTV this semester to create a film version of his puppet staging of Macbeth; that performance will be filmed and edited by the few core HRTV members...
...feel everyone's excitement and that feeds your performance." But in the theatre there are no flaming, computer-generated Balrog monsters to fight. McKellen laughs. "Special effects only mean you often act in front of a blue screen and imagine the scenery. It's exactly the same as Macbeth, where you say 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' There is no dagger. And I never saw the Balrog, I was shouting at a yellow tennis ball!" He jokingly experiments with the line Shakespeare might write today, "Is this a Balrog I see before me?" HE IS PROUD...
...Macbeth turned out to be the perfect Shakespeare play to do with a non-human cast because it is obsessed with the supernatural, murders and the appearance of ghosts and apparitions. “The play’s doubts about what is true and what is falsehood—but especially falsehood that one creates to gratify one’s own desires—resonate with the simulacric quality of puppets,” Bittner says. The puppets themselves allow the puppeteers more freedom to gesticulate and convey emotion through movement than a traditional cast could...
...Rather than the courtly appearance normally associated with Shakepearean drama—“played in tights and capes and those ridiculous pumpkin pants,” as Bittner describes them—the production aims for a sparse vision of Scotland that contrasts the real world of Macbeth with the supernatural one. While other productions of the play focus on the system of feudalism in Scotland, this one takes a different approach. “Our idea is that Scotland is very poor—there are no bards or balls or tapestries,” Carmichael says...
With 26 hand puppets, six puppeteers, eight voice actors and some funky techno music, this production promises to be anything but a tights-wearing, overacting, stuffy, Laurence Olivier-style production. But this show isn’t just “all is but toys,” as Macbeth says during the play. Carmichael and Bittner say they are making a point...