New Scottish Play Artwork

[broadwayman17]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 9:42pm

http://broadway.yahoo.com/macbeth/show/103;_ylt=Ao6u1.Vd6tfUWoKsGjTF0giuxYZ4

Updated On: 3/9/08 at 09:42 PM

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 9:48pm

Interesting artwork.

You do know that the curse doesn't apply to message boards, right?

[keen on kean]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:37pm

Can't be too careful.

[LittlexFallxOfxRain]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:43pm

Once in a caberet, I was singing the song Bosom Buddies from Mame, singing for the title role. So of course, I have to say the scottish play...and on the way off stage, my friend singing for Vera trips and twists her ankle. So no, you never can be too careful.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:22am

When I did Into the Woods one of my stage managers said the name of the Scottish play backstage, even though I told her not to. By the end of the run she and the other stage manager had both hurt their backs and one of our light people fell off an 8 feet ladder and almost broke his tail bone.

I don't joke around with the Scottish play in a theatre, but it does seem inane to worry on a message board.

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:36am

Can someone explain this curse to me

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:57am

Great explanation here

[winston89]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:00am

I remember being in a theatre camp a couple of years ago where we were taking one of our classes in the actual theatre rather then one of the class rooms of the college we were at. One student was talking about the curse and another was saying that they didn't believe it and yelled out HAMLET at the top of his lungs. NOTHING HAPPENED. I have trouble belieaving in curses to begin with. I might have believed it if there was something going on that personally involved me. But, the only experence I have had in a theatre no one got hurt or anything.


Veryneworkcurious,

The story of the curse is this. That Shakespeare used lines from actual witchcraft books which caused the curse to come around.

Another theory to the curse is that back in the day. Theatre companies that were doing bad business for a long long time would use this play as their final production and bill it as a " Blockbuster play" keep in mind that it would be next to impossible for one show/production to save a theatre.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:12am

Winston, maybe nothing happened because the play associated with the curse is NOT Hamlet.

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:13am

Thanks Ourtime992 & winston89

That's intense.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:15am

Yeah, WInston, putting aside the fact that the kid yelled out the wrong play, it's not like the curse inspires instant hellfire.

I don't necessarily believe in it, but I still don't say it.

And if something were to happen because of it, it probably wouldn't occur immediately and on the spot.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:15am

Oh, and the artwork is lame.
They could do better.

(Not that they need to, this will sell out anyway.)

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:21am

You have to love an explanation that utilized the phrase "back in the day".

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:40am

What's wrong with 'back in the day?' It's not an essay, there's no need to get technical.

[stagescreen]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:12pm

I was in the Scottish Play (BigMac as we called it) ten years ago or so, playing Donalbain, and our Duncan died the day after we closed. We saw him at the cast party, and then boom, he keels over the next day. I believe in it...

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:32pm

There are a variety of assumptions where the curse comes from. Because it's such a violent play, there have always been accidents. Others feel that the Weird Sisters are casting real spells. Others feel that it stems from Hecate getting upset that her big scene is always cut (since it's said that the Hecate scene was not written by Shakespeare, but by John Fletcher.)

[george95]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:49pm

seeing/hearing "the scottish play" instead of Macbeth makes me want to constantly say MACBETH MACBETH MACBETH just to freak everybody out. That's my kind of humor : )

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:11pm

I just don't understand the concept of calling Macbeth "The Scottish Play" on a message board or outside of the theatre.