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Editor's Note: Following is the text of a letter dated Oct. 16 addressed to President Neil L. Rudenstine which was simultaneously forwarded by the author to The Crimson...
...part, then? Have we been handed somebody's idea of a deliberate re-reading of the character--a postmodern comedy, perhaps, along the lines of a Tom Stoppard play? If this is the idea, it doesn't seem to be working. The rest of the production interprets the text at face value; as a result, the bizarre behavior of Colapinto's Macbeth gradually renders its audience unsure whether any given line or scene is meant to be interpreted as straight drama or as comedy. The audience starts to greet dramatic scenes and speeches with nervous laughter about halfway through...
There was, incidentally, one very serious technical problem. When Macbeth returns to the Weird Sisters in Scene IV.i for their prophecies about his future, the prophecies, which are delivered by conjured apparitions, come through loudspeakers; the sound is so garbled that if you don't already know the text, you're not going to pick up on what they're saying, which makes the ensuing two acts considerably more difficult to understand...
...Macbeth is so central to the drama that his presence, and in this case, his imbalance, influences everything around him. Until the play's actors and producers can agree on an interpretation that will both work on all levels of the play's performance and agree with the text on which it is based, this version of Macbeth will be--if you'll forgive the irresistible reference--but a walking shadow: a poor player indeed
Thanks to the recent surge of self-help and spiritual renewal literature, humor "writers" now have even more fodder with which to antagonize the "battle of the sexes." A grand favorite of this genre is the "girls rule, boys drool" pseudo-feminist text, as well as the male role-reversal counterpart, in which one gender is blasted incessantly in the hopes that the opposite sex will cry, "It's true!" between shrieks of laughter. Two recent addition to these battle, Macho Meditations: Daily Thoughts and Inspirations for Real Men and The Guys' Guide to Guys' Videos: The First Video Guide...