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William's carefully chosen and meticulously directed choices bring the play up to date in a generally tasteful and effective manner. Macbeth delivers his "dagger soliloquy" under the influence of alcohol, and Shakespear's Porter becomes his soused bartender. Moreover, Birnam wood does not come to Dunsinane as camouflage of war, but rather through its use in the manufacture of the enemy's weapon...
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Excitement fills the Kirkland House stage as Kirk Williams' innovative production of Macbeth delivers with sparkling vitality...
Through intricate an clever direction, Williams successfully transposes the world of Macbeth onto 1950's America, its dukes changing to gangsters and its king to a Godfather. Without altering the dialogue or betraying the play's intent, he brings to it a fresh vision which really works...
...third (from 131 min. to 88), ordered a new ending shot by a different director and even sent Ambersons out as the bottom half of a double feature, in support of Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost. Republic Pictures cut 20 min., which has since been restored, from his Macbeth in 1948. And so, that year, Welles set off on a European tour that would last nearly four decades. His first stop was Italy, where he would begin Othello...