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Macbeth Play Production Review

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Blake Webb
Play Production Review
THAR 208-500

Macbeth Production Review

For my Theatre Arts class we were issued the assignment of attending the Macbeth Production done by Texas A&M students. We were asked to do an analysis of the changes made to the production as feedback on Director Aaron Glover’s twist on Macbeth. This was none the less an entertaining play and held my attention throughout; However, the play seem to go over my head which cause me to be confused for quite sometime. Towards the end I caught on but over all it wasn’t the easiest to interpret. The Director Aaron Glover’s work to me, made the play more confusing than what it need to be and had me lost throughout the majority of the production. One of my biggest problems with understanding the play …show more content…

Verisimilitude is the Neoclassical ideal of truth, all drama was to be “true to life.” So things that were not observed in everyday life, such things as ghosts and supernatural events were forbidden. The play needs to teach morals, along with a battle between good and evil. Comedy and tragedy has to be separate. Also within the play, there has to be a unity of time, place, and action. So for Glover’s production I believe that the historical audience would agree and disagree at the same time in wise of if it followed the Neoclassical ideals. For example, did it teach me morals? No there was killing in order to gain power, yet at the same time yes there was grief that followed the killing. Did it obey the idea of verisimilitude? No it is physically impossible for one to die multiple deaths, as did Macbeth. Also, witches and ghost are supernatural so it breaks the idea of being “true to life.” But Glover’s production did separate comedy and tragedy, however it did not resolve the distress of Macbeth. Therefore I come to the conclusion that the historical audience wouldn’t be pleased with the specific twist in this

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