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Review: Antaeus' 'Macbeth' reframes a tragedy
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Macbeth (Rob Nagle) and Lady Macbeth (Tessa Auberjonois) bury a child in a scene added to Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
by director Jessica Kubzansky for the Antaeus Company's double­cast production. (Daniel G. Lam)
By Margaret Gray
July 19, 2012 , 10:43 a.m.
Meet the Macbeths, a charming, upwardly mobile couple
grieving over the death of their only child.
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Director Jessica Kubzansky’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s
“Macbeth,” currently on view in a satisfyingly foggy, bloody
production by the Antaeus Company, opens with a funeral.
Macbeth (Rob Nagle in the performance I saw; all the roles
are double­cast) and his wife (Tessa Auberjonois) place a tiny
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Theater review: 'Macbeth' at the Antaeus Company ‑ latimes.com
shrouded body in a coffin, wordlessly but movingly
communicating the couple’s grief and mutual love.
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Of course a tragedy like that could devastate a marriage.
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suck” to a “babe”; Macbeth seethes over the prophecy that
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Kubzansky’s bold answer, while not explaining all of the
infamous couple’s behavior (could anything? ­­ even Freud
threw up his hands), casts them in a surprisingly sympathetic
light. In fact, when the weird sisters (Lorna Raver, Jane Carr
and Saundra McClain in a daffy “Golden Girls”­esque turn)
start plotting to mess with Macbeth’s head right after the
funeral, it seems in terrible taste even for witches.
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Having enjoyed Nagle (one of Antaeus’ new artistic directors)
in his camp work with the Troubadour Theater Company, I
half­expected him to put on a powdered wig and dance, but
eventually his tragic persona convinced me.
From her first appearance, Auberjonois makes a riveting, disconcertingly sympathetic Lady Macbeth.
And Shakespeare's capacious, enigmatic tragedy remains thrilling.
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“Macbeth,” the Antaeus Company, 5112 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. 8 p.m. Thursdays and
Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Ends Aug. 26. $30 and $34. (818) 506­1983 or
www.Antaeus.org. Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes.
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