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Welcome to old Scotland, a dark country in which good and evil are fought out by spiritual choices and strong swords. Christianity has only recently penetrated with the conversion of King Duncan and his family. This angered the Weïrd Sisters, the Morrigan, a triune Celtic goddess associated with war, death, and fate. Bitter because the people no longer worship them, the witches embody the influence of sin, enticing mortals and rejoicing in their destruction. Yet Macbeth reminds us how impotent evil is. In chasing after lawless ambition, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth catch emptiness and insanity. Malcolm and Macduff struggle with faults as real as Macbeth’s, but where he succumbs to the witches’ whispers, they refuse them. Evil is a mere apparition, a knocking, three witches who can suggest but not perform without permission from a mortal’s will. In Scotland, as in our world, when the rightful King resists, evil must flee.
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Directed by Maggie Dougher November 17-19, 2005
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