Macbeth

Synopsis: A three-actor adaptation by the Independent Eye
(actor/playwright/designers Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, plus Camilla Schade when they perform Macbeth). The actors, in heavy makeup, can speak in their own person, and/or can ventriloquize for one or two life-sized puppet heads they
hold in one or both hands, so there can be as many as nine characters (three faces, six puppet heads) on stage at any time. The Macbeth and Lady Macbeth puppet heads change over the course of the play, getting skull-like; and different actors manipulate the heads and speak the roles. The play is performed in free space to an original electronic score.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1995
Availability: Out of distribution (12/2007).

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Notes: The videotape was developed during repertory touring from 1975-1995 and comprises some archival footage, which is of a poorer technical quality.
History: Produced by the Independent Eye at the Body Politic Theater, Chicago, IL, 21 September 1978; and on tour through 1995.
The video was distributed by Poor Yorick but following the firm’s closure in October 2007 it is not known where copies might now be obtained (12/2007).
Stills: Images from the play may be seen at http://www.independenteye.org/plays/macbeth.html (accessed 11/2007)
Reviews: Frank, Leah D. New York Theatre Review 3, no. 6 (1979): 48.

Shakespeare, "Macbeth". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av37889 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)

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