shakespearean:caoine:

Alan Cumming is doing a one-man production of Macbeth, set in a mental hospital. It’s coming to Lincoln Center in July and I’m pretty goddamn excited. I strongly encourage you to watch the trailer and then get excited with me.

“We both wanted to do it properly in the way we really wanted to do it. It’s the perfect show for NTS – it’s traditional and radical and experimental. It’s nuts, what we’re doing. Nuts!”

In the meantime, Cumming has immersed himself in the voices of Macbeth by not only doing an audiobook of the play but also recording Macbeth: A Novel by David Hewson and A J Hartley. Then, last autumn, the immersive theatremakers Punchdrunk asked him to guest for two performances in Sleep No More, their reworking of Macbeth.

“So all roads were leading to Macbeth,” he says. But a Macbeth in which actor and directors, to a greater extent than usual, make it all up as they go along. This, for Cumming, is the visceral thrill.

(Source: vimeo.com)

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going to see this with my mum as she loves him
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    I wish there was a DVD version of this. :(
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    caoine: If you know me at all, you know that if it takes place in a mental hospital, I’M ON BOARD.
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