Albright’s ‘Macbeth’ draws inspiration from modern sources

Erin Cauley stars as Lady Macbeth and Jon Witt stars as Macbeth in the Albright Theatre’s production of “Macbeth” running April 27-May 3.

In theater circles, “Macbeth” is often called “the Scottish Play” based on the longstanding superstition that saying the name “Macbeth” in the theater curses the production. “I do think it is one of Shakespeare’s better tragedies … but ‘Macbeth’ is a hard show to tackle. It packs so much stuff in two and a half hours. I think if you really tune in, the show is about a relatively good person getting wrapped up in power and greed and he’s being gaslit by the people around him.”

“Something that was so interesting about that movie is the juxtaposition of these very, very posh, wealthy people on this backdrop of decay and forgottenness. The whole mansion, the estate of Saltburn, there was flypaper hanging from the ceiling and grounds weren’t tended to. The grass was brown,” he said.

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