Word: macbeth
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...rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written for a woman, fiercer than Lady Macbeth, more lovelorn than Phedre. Despite Rigg's shortcomings as Euripides' virago, the role makes her the odds-on contender to join Caldwell and Judith Anderson, who played the part on Broadway in 1948, as winners of a Tony Award for Best Actress...
When I first read Death of a Salesman in 10th grade, it was something very new and fresh for me. Having only read dramas such as Shakespeare's Hamlet and MacBeth, I thought plays were only about Large Male Figures. In contrast, Death of a Salesman tells the story of a Small Male Figure...
...content with another Oscar bid as an actor (Remains of the Day), Anthony Hopkins will try directing. The film is that notorious bad-luck vehicle Macbeth. Hopkins is protecting himself with a strong star: himself...
...folk wisdom of food has degenerated into commercial slogans -- for the kitchen is a place of remembered magic. What are spells, if not womankind's oldest recipes? What is a caldron but a pot for witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth...
...height (5 ft., 6 in., shoes included) is ultimately irrelevant. Pryce says this is the first time in his career he has ever played a living person. However, he hastens to point out, "I have played characters like him before." And who might they be? "Richard III," Pryce responds. "Macbeth...