[Vision2020] Fw: Macbeth Concludes Fall Season of Shakespeare Sundays on November 16

[Bruce and Jean Livingston]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ronald Hufham 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:11 PM
Subject: Macbeth Concludes Fall Season of Shakespeare Sundays on November 16


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 6, 2008 • Moscow, Idaho • Contact Ronald Hufham, Artistic Director

               The Mirror Theater’s SHAKESPEARE SUNDAYS  continues on Sunday November 16, 2008 with a single session reading of Macbeth in the Parish Hall of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 1st and Jefferson Streets, Moscow, beginning at 1:30 and ending at 4:30 pm. Those who want to read a part should sign-up at 1:15 pm.  Donation: $3.00.

                Here is your chance to play the devil (Macbeth), his wife (Lady Macbeth), or their tempters (The Three Witches).  There are many good guys, too (Malcolm, Macduff, or Banquo).

                Ron Hufham, the theater's Artistic Director said, "Shakespeare may have written plays with greater scope - Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Henry the Fourth, and King Lear come to mind - but in no other play does his writing begin at such a high rhetorical pitch and climb upward into a kind of bloody bliss from there.  If you were made to suffer through this play in High School suspecting that you were missing something, then this is your chance for revenge.  You will never again utter or hear such great dramatic poetry than at this reading.

                "In a way this play is Shakespeare's only extended anatomy of marital dynamics which begins in a united pursuit of a mutual goal only to end in divided and solitary horror.  It is not unusual for Lady Macbeth to come across as a Dragon Lady, and Macbeth to seem under her wicked thumb.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Macbeth recognizes from the first meeting with the witches the full moral dimension of their usurpation.  He knows that his wife will never understand the implications of their act. But he knows as well that turning his battlefield ruthlessness for King Duncan against the King will require the fanning of his ambition that she will contribute from her fierce personal, domestic, and erotic longings.  He knows, as she does not, that this regicide will divorce them forever. Lady Macbeth is the first victim Macbeth consumes, and the last to perish: 'she should have died hereafter - tomorrow...' - when what he means is that she should have died herebefore - yesterday... .

                "In none of the brilliant productions of this play in modern times starring great actors as the Macbeths like Jason Robards, Siobhán McKenna, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellan, Judi Dench, Anthony Sher, Liev Schreiber, or most recently Patrick Stewart, has there been any real realization of the other half of the play - the triumph of justice.  No where was this clearer than in the Classic Theater of Harlem's outdoor production in which a popular audience loudly cheered on every advancement toward Macbeth's destruction. They were not a bourgeois audience safely pitty-patting the great acting of well known performers. They were a mass body who had experienced insults in their flesh and to their hopes that Macbeth's murders cogently stood in for.  I'm sure Shakespeare's groundlings had a similar reaction - else why include any but the most skeletal scenes for the good guys?"

                "Anyway, come and see what you feel first, and think second."

                Those who post the attached flyer will collect the seventh known signature of William Shakespeare when you meet in the hereafter.

                For further information about Shakespeare Sundays or The Mirror Theater contact mirrortheater at roadrunner.com, or call 208-882-1394.

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