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...major break with tradition is an unconventional portrayal of Lady Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most powerful female figures. As Lady Macbeth urges her husband on his bloody path to the Scottish throne, she exhibits an ambitious, murderous zeal similar to that of her husband. Her ferocious lust for power makes her equally culpable as Macbeth for her husband’s eventual demise. Outwardly and inwardly, she seems anything but the figure of the loving wife, but that is the direction that Cozzens and his Lady, played by Lisa A. Faiman ’02, have decided...
...really interesting thing where Lady Macbeth is trying to get Macbeth to believe in his own power and his ability to take his fate into his own hands,” said Cozzens. “There is the seduction of the witches as they control his mind and his thoughts about the future, and Lady Macbeth is trying to pull him back to believe in himself...
This results in a Lady Macbeth that’s more compassionate and less brutal than most have seen. In scenes previewed by The Crimson, she caressed Macbeth in his troubled times, not manipulatively to spur him to kill, but tenderly to ease his mind. Faiman’s character constantly tries to reassure her husband and ground him in the natural, not supernatural, world...
Though intriguing, such a choice is not without problems, as having Lady Macbeth influence Macbeth in one direction and the witches in the other might reduce the protagonist to an unwitting dupe caught in between the forces of humanity and fate...
...gives his witches—Erica R. Lipez ’05, Scottie Thompson ’05 and Perry Fleisig-Greene ’05—greater prominence and increases their agency by casting them as murderers who advance the action and messengers who bring news to Macbeth throughout the play...