Word: macbethness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should The Crimson review campus theater productions? The recent criticism of The Crimson's Oct. 24 review of Macbeth brought this controversy to a head. Many letters criticized the review of the lead actor's performance, deeming the review too personal, overly critical or too harsh...
...author must justify what he or she says with examples and facts. In reading The Crimson's arts coverage and speaking with the arts editors, I am impressed that this need for justification is put in the forefront of the review process. A very close examination of the Macbeth review (which, understandably, is not the way most people read the newspaper) showed that what seemed on the surface to be personal criticisms were in fact meticulously backed up by scenes and lines from the play. While the Macbeth review was very close to the boundary of how critical coverage should...
...know how to approach an assessment of it. Enacted entirely in Zulu by performers in traditional Zulu attire, Umabatha* is at once a history lesson, a dance-and-music spectacular, a celebration of Zulu culture and--last and, theoretically, most important--a reworking of Shakespeare's famous tragedy Macbeth...
...urging of a drama professor who suggested that he find a way to showcase and celebrate "the richness of our South African culture" in a format that might easily be understood by the rest of the world. Msomi's epiphany came when he realized that the political background of Macbeth-- the half-mythologized atmosphere of the warring clans of medieval Scotland--was eerily similar to that of the birth of the Zulu nation, united out of many warring tribes under the great 19th-century leader Shaka Zulu. Moreover, Shaka's life was oddly parallel with that of Macbeth: a diviner...
Colapinto's performance balance quite well with Edith (not Emily) Bishop's shrewish portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Her performance was, as Mandel points out, exquisite, but she deserved far more praise than Mandel gave her. To eliminate Colapinto from Mandel's list of quality elements of the show, to attack his work as "poor judgment or sheer incompetence," and to downplay Bishop's excellence, is wrong. Mandel is welcome to her opinion, but the mean-spirited tone of the article was both unfair and unnecessary; the highlighted quotes and headlines only helped Mandel blame any and all problems with...