Angela L. Das

In high school, being a self-proclaimed progressive and
serious drama student, I was in an Artaudian production of
Macbeth. The director, on facing the difficult decision of who
to cast as whom using a class of 12 egomaniacal teenage
females, cast all of us as witches, and all of us employed the
Theatre of Cruelty style to “enact” the story of Macbeth: A
complicated theory, not easily grasped by our audiences at the
time, and even more difficult still to explain ten years on.
Last Saturday, I returned to the play and learned how it
really should be done.

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