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Yesterday, right after Rosh Hashanah ended (as in we left the house the exact minute of sunset), me and TW went with our parents to see the Taffety Punk Riot Grrrls' production of MacBeth in DC, and it was excellent!
The show's cast was all-female, which was extremely interesting in combination with how MacBeth handles gender and especially masculinity; aside from the plays that are basically only about gender fuckery (like Twelfth Night or the significantly worse As You like It), I think MacBeth is probably the most intense and interesting Shakespeare gets about sex and gender. From Lady MacBeth's prayer to be unsexed, to her frequent challenging of MacBeth's masculinity in the light of his terror and guilt, to MacDuff saying that before he can take vengeance for his family as a man, he must feel his grief as a man--there's a lot to work with, and the Riot Grrrls do a lot with it!
( Want to read a full review? I think you do! CW for the plot of MacBeth, I don't know what to tell you )
Review by Crow& with help from TW!
The show's cast was all-female, which was extremely interesting in combination with how MacBeth handles gender and especially masculinity; aside from the plays that are basically only about gender fuckery (like Twelfth Night or the significantly worse As You like It), I think MacBeth is probably the most intense and interesting Shakespeare gets about sex and gender. From Lady MacBeth's prayer to be unsexed, to her frequent challenging of MacBeth's masculinity in the light of his terror and guilt, to MacDuff saying that before he can take vengeance for his family as a man, he must feel his grief as a man--there's a lot to work with, and the Riot Grrrls do a lot with it!
( Want to read a full review? I think you do! CW for the plot of MacBeth, I don't know what to tell you )
Review by Crow& with help from TW!
