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Posted: 3/16/11 at 12:53pm
I don't want this thread to be about spoilers for the show. I think the less you know about how the show unfolds, the better. Trust me on this!
BUT, having seen it, and, as MacBeth is (sadly) one of the tragedies that I'm not overly knowledgeable about, I'd LOVE to be able to put some names to some faces, so that I can make some more sense out of what I saw as I continue to think about it.
Can anyone help me identify the following (and I promise to try not to add any spoilers to these descriptions):
1) The cute younger guy who was praying after the dinner scene and then joins another really good looking guy in the luggage room where they change into clean clothes. My best guess is either Banquo and his son, or Duncan's two sons.
2) The pregnant girl and her husband. I'm guessing MacDuff and Lady MacDuff?
3) The two people in the center of the dinner table. He mouths the word "murderer". I originally thought this was MacBeth and Lady MacB, but I realized later I was wrong.
4) The two people who arrive at the dinner party bloodied. She in the gold dress and he tall and handsome. Were these MacBeth and Lady MacB?
5) The Coroner? Who was that?
6) The guy burying the letter.
7) The pretty girl who isn't in a formal dress, who is snooping through office and then cuts a passage from a book and puts it into a locket.
The guy who gets naked during the orgy? (Ok, sorry, that's a spoiler - but the scene is SO amazing, that people should know to try to find it).
9) The guy who doesn't get naked during the orgy? Is that MacBeth?
10) These characters I'm not sure if I saw or who they were, so does anyone have any clues as to where I might have seen them (or where I can find them the next time I go): Banquo, Duncan, Banquo's sons, Lady MacBeth.
There were a couple of REALLY good looking guys who were in their later 20's playing leading roles, that I think looked a LOT alike, so I got confused at times... or maybe it was the same guy and I just saw him SO many places and scenes that I thought he was multiple people.
I really could kick myself for not knowing MacBeth better. And I'm sure at least ONE of you will cut me down to size and chastise me for being a bad theater gay and not knowing my Shakespeare well enough. So get out your knives boys (because I know the bitchy ones on here are theater queens, not girls), and hack away at me. But in the process if you could try to identify these characters I'd be SO grateful, because I can't STOP thinking about this show and REALLY want to make more sense of it...
P.S. A note for those who like to attack people who post with legit questions and interests: you guys crack me up! you're as silly as watching an aimless banana peel-slipping buffoon... so if your goal is to upset me, that's impossible because I find you very very funny - in a very very sad way. And I envision you as being 40 pounds overweight, still thinking you should play Tony in West Side (even though you're 25 years too old and have a singing voice that even your shower hates), and bitter and hateful because the theater is filled young pretty boys with talent who don't invite you to their parties. We see you when we come out of our stage doors - as you stand in the shadows leering at us, somehow drawn to us, but hating us at the same time because your boat has sailed, and even the pianist at Marie's Crisis over-sings you to try to drown out your caterwauling. So rip me a new one for not knowing MacBeth if you must, but just know that it won't upset me. I'll just be laughing at you and feeling sorry that your fat ass is sitting here ripping me a new one, when you SHOULD be at the gym working off that lasagna from last night.
...and for the nice people with a weight problem: we love you and DO know the difference between the "bitter I-hate-the-world-that-left-me-behind" types, and the amazing wonderful fans who don't have to devote their lives to fitness and the gym the way we who work in this biz have to... we think you (the nice ones) are completely beautiful and perfect just as you are!!
BUT, having seen it, and, as MacBeth is (sadly) one of the tragedies that I'm not overly knowledgeable about, I'd LOVE to be able to put some names to some faces, so that I can make some more sense out of what I saw as I continue to think about it.
Can anyone help me identify the following (and I promise to try not to add any spoilers to these descriptions):
1) The cute younger guy who was praying after the dinner scene and then joins another really good looking guy in the luggage room where they change into clean clothes. My best guess is either Banquo and his son, or Duncan's two sons.
2) The pregnant girl and her husband. I'm guessing MacDuff and Lady MacDuff?
3) The two people in the center of the dinner table. He mouths the word "murderer". I originally thought this was MacBeth and Lady MacB, but I realized later I was wrong.
4) The two people who arrive at the dinner party bloodied. She in the gold dress and he tall and handsome. Were these MacBeth and Lady MacB?
5) The Coroner? Who was that?
6) The guy burying the letter.
7) The pretty girl who isn't in a formal dress, who is snooping through office and then cuts a passage from a book and puts it into a locket.
The guy who gets naked during the orgy? (Ok, sorry, that's a spoiler - but the scene is SO amazing, that people should know to try to find it). 9) The guy who doesn't get naked during the orgy? Is that MacBeth?
10) These characters I'm not sure if I saw or who they were, so does anyone have any clues as to where I might have seen them (or where I can find them the next time I go): Banquo, Duncan, Banquo's sons, Lady MacBeth.
There were a couple of REALLY good looking guys who were in their later 20's playing leading roles, that I think looked a LOT alike, so I got confused at times... or maybe it was the same guy and I just saw him SO many places and scenes that I thought he was multiple people.
I really could kick myself for not knowing MacBeth better. And I'm sure at least ONE of you will cut me down to size and chastise me for being a bad theater gay and not knowing my Shakespeare well enough. So get out your knives boys (because I know the bitchy ones on here are theater queens, not girls), and hack away at me. But in the process if you could try to identify these characters I'd be SO grateful, because I can't STOP thinking about this show and REALLY want to make more sense of it...
P.S. A note for those who like to attack people who post with legit questions and interests: you guys crack me up! you're as silly as watching an aimless banana peel-slipping buffoon... so if your goal is to upset me, that's impossible because I find you very very funny - in a very very sad way. And I envision you as being 40 pounds overweight, still thinking you should play Tony in West Side (even though you're 25 years too old and have a singing voice that even your shower hates), and bitter and hateful because the theater is filled young pretty boys with talent who don't invite you to their parties. We see you when we come out of our stage doors - as you stand in the shadows leering at us, somehow drawn to us, but hating us at the same time because your boat has sailed, and even the pianist at Marie's Crisis over-sings you to try to drown out your caterwauling. So rip me a new one for not knowing MacBeth if you must, but just know that it won't upset me. I'll just be laughing at you and feeling sorry that your fat ass is sitting here ripping me a new one, when you SHOULD be at the gym working off that lasagna from last night.
...and for the nice people with a weight problem: we love you and DO know the difference between the "bitter I-hate-the-world-that-left-me-behind" types, and the amazing wonderful fans who don't have to devote their lives to fitness and the gym the way we who work in this biz have to... we think you (the nice ones) are completely beautiful and perfect just as you are!!
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