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Hold, Enough! In Oldham, England, Actor Antony Oakley, playing Macduff in Macbeth, charged with his dagger, laid on with such vigor that Macbeth was laid up with a five-inch abdominal wound. In Toulon, France, Baritone Fernand Lagarde, carried away by the third act stabbing scene in Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles, was carried offstage with a two-inch abdominal wound...
...speeches, but that is the only large criticism of the production. To compensate for that, the treatment of the love of the Macbeths is handled admirably, making them more human and their deeds more plausible, while the inclusion on stage of the murders of Banquo and Lady Macduff intensifies the horror of Macbeth's evil deeds. All the scenes are excellently staged and the play never for a moment loses its terrifying force...
...Copley, Macbeth was roaring his last speech to Macduff. His bosom heaved, and his voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...
...Macduff laid on; swords clashed; and Macbeth got his in the second round. He died beautifully at the edge of the stage, heaving his final gasp practically in Vag's face. A moment later, Vag and the school kids all tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until...
...believe she's a junior at Wellesley this time." Macbeth, now looking very 20th century, grinned as he buttoned up his reversible. Then he opened the door and faced the Arlington Amazons as bravely as he had met Macduff...