Play review

Macbeth

We went with Kirk and Midge tonight to see MacBeth up on campus. The setting was Book of Mormon times. (Meso-America if you don't know) about 70-50 BC. They slightly modified all the character names for the play. (Macbeth was Macbett')

Past that, it was fairly Shakespearean. The actors all tried for Scottish accents. In Indian type costumes. We sat down, and I discovered I was sitting next to a guy that overflowed into my personal space a bit. (A bit too much.) We all moved down one seat, which ended up working out just fine.

Kirk couldn't take it, and went home at intermission. (Midge stayed with us.) The play was good, but at the end, they tried for the big climatic battle sense, Macbeth and Macduff both clearly had a hard time keeping their stage fighting real looking. (Swords, hitting, kicking, etc.) It got sort of comical towards the end. Then they showed a fake head of Macbeth, after Macduff killed him. The audience couldn't take it anymore, and all started laughing at it.

The play was good, the setting didn't really matter. (Next year - Henry the fifth - from space!) The biggest problem I had, was for some reason, every time the Macduff actor talked, I found it nearly completely impossible to focus on what he was saying. Maybe he had the only authentic Scottish accent, and my brain blocked it out...