MacBeth

Jemuel is starting a tradition of giving experiences for Christmas intead of stuff. He started by taking Bev to the Nutcracker but found out that ballet actually doesn't do much for Bev. Maybe she is rooting for the mice.

This year he took her to the circus and me to see a local production of MacBeth.

It was excellent. I was already a big fan of the play but this was about as well done as you could imagine it could be done on a stage of that size.

Excellent points:
In Shake plays one of the difficulties is that the characters will sometimes talk to the audience tell you what they are thinking. It is sometimes kind of awkward in modern times because it seems kind of out of place. To solve this the directors would darken all the lights except for a spot light on the character's face and then put on tense sounds/music. It worked really really well.

The guys who played MacBeth was able to master the shades of a noble who needs to impress the other nobles, the wishy washy husband, the tormented warrior and the kick ass fighter. That is a wide range. Some of the times I was completely taken in by the charms of a fighting man and at other times thinking "you bastard!"

The music/sound overall was well crafted and only added to the atmosphere, never taking away. It was interesting and yet also natural feeling.

Weak point:
Not so much a weak point but I had some issues with Lady MacBeth. She was portrayed as fun and frisky instead of the scheming and dominating. I always thought of her as one of the most evil baddies in Shake but this lady Macbeth was almost a victim.

Also not super weak but costumes were only so-so. They weren't horrible but didn't add a whole lot. Sometimes suits sometimes clean and ironed biker clothes. Meh.

But still over all I'd give the play a A- and recomend anyone interesting in spending 25 bucks to do it... unless you hate Shake.