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Simon & Schuster, August 2011
eBook, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 145164454X
ISBN-13: 9781451644548
Description
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming in his riveting solo interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Star of stage, film and television Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland’s bold presentation of Shakespeare’s chilling tale of desire, ambition, and the supernatural.
This radical reimagining of one of Shakespeare’s most deeply psychological plays is set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming is the lone patient. Channeling the story of Macbeth, he is inhabited in turn by each of the characters of the drama, including some of Shakespeare’s most complex and troubled creations.
Cumming’s one-man interpretation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play comes to audio directly from acclaimed limited stage engagements with the National Theatre of Scotland in Glasgow and at New York’s Lincoln Center. Directed for audio by the stage production’s renowned directors, this exclusive studio recording of Cumming’s dazzling solo performance captures the excitement, passion and poetry of a wildly original tour-de-force that is destined to become theatrical legend.
Star of stage, film and television Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland’s bold presentation of Shakespeare’s chilling tale of desire, ambition, and the supernatural.
This radical reimagining of one of Shakespeare’s most deeply psychological plays is set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming is the lone patient. Channeling the story of Macbeth, he is inhabited in turn by each of the characters of the drama, including some of Shakespeare’s most complex and troubled creations.
Cumming’s one-man interpretation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play comes to audio directly from acclaimed limited stage engagements with the National Theatre of Scotland in Glasgow and at New York’s Lincoln Center. Directed for audio by the stage production’s renowned directors, this exclusive studio recording of Cumming’s dazzling solo performance captures the excitement, passion and poetry of a wildly original tour-de-force that is destined to become theatrical legend.
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WQXR 96.3, October 4, 2011
...Wills, a Pulitzer Prize–winner who wrote Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America , looks at two pragmatists, William Shakespeare and Guiseppe Verdi, in Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater , which will be released on ...
NewsBlaze, September 14, 2011
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AllAfrica.com, September 5, 2011
...by her Dad at an early stage. As early as when she was eight years, he would explain William Shakespeare's plays to her. She eventually became fascinated by the play Macbeth which she read severally. She began to recite her favourite lines ...
AllAfrica.com, September 5, 2011
...by her Dad at an early stage. As early as when she was eight years, he would explain William Shakespeare's plays to her. She eventually became fascinated by the play Macbeth which she read severally. She began to recite her favourite lines ...
Champion Newspapers Nigeria Online, September 2, 2011
...by her Dad at an early stage. As early as when she was eight years, he would explain William Shakespeare’s plays to her. She eventually became fascinated by the play Macbeth which she read severally. She began to recite her favourite lines ...
Broadway World, August 10, 2011
...Upper West Side caused a sensation. Gordon won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. 136 min.8:00 Macbeth. 1971. Great Britain. Screenplay by Polanski, Kenneth Tynan, based on the play by William Shakespeare. With Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, ...
The Scotsman, September 24, 2009
...intriguing mystery he has overlooked – the possibility that Rosslyn Chapel and Castle may have been visited by William Shakespeare. Sounds implausible? Well, there is some historical evidence to support this suggestion. Up to a year ...
Halifax Evening Courier, June 15, 2009
...his writing, ask your questions and you might even get your book signed! As You Like It by William Shakespeare and Heartbreak Productions Manor Heath Park, Manor Heath Road, Savile Park, Halifax HX3 0EB Sunday 5 July, 7.30pmTickets: £10, ...
The Independent, May 30, 2009
...Carta of 1215 and the King James Bible of 1611. The only fictional writer on the list is William Shakespeare. Lord Bragg chooses to highlight the Bard's first folio of 1623 as his world-changing publication. The most left-field inclusion is ...
Newbury Port News, April 22, 2009
...wait to read all of her students' works. She also reports that one eighth-grade class just finished reading William Shakespeare's play 'MacBeth' and has done an excellent job of reading and understanding Shakespeare's writing style. Students ...
RBC Dain Raushcer, March 18, 2009
...sub-culture of the incarcerated, and their experiences provide a unique and truthful view of modern-day prison life in MacBeth for Murderers. MacBeth for Murderers is a fascinating true story of how lives collide behind the walls of the ...
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