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The
University of Toledo Department of Theatre & Film to stage
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, April 17-19, 22-26
The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film will
perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth Friday, April 17 through
Sunday, April 19, and Wednesday April 22 through Sunday, April
26, 2009. Performances on Wednesday-Saturday are at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. |
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Macbeth is considered one of Shakespeare's “four great
tragedies,” along with Hamlet, Othello, and
King Lear. It explores the protagonist's deep
transformation from courage and valor to treachery and greed,
caused by what Macbeth calls “vaulting ambition,” ingrained in
all of human nature.
The play’s director, UT assistant theatre professor and head of
acting for the department Cornel Gabara, says that “in
Shakespeare's plays, the main characters are never victims of
external factors, but instead, their transformation is a result
of their own actions and choices. They bring their downfall upon
themselves through their own inability to resist the temptations
of all the negative aspects of human nature, which in Macbeth’s
case is greed and desire for power.”
Patrons who come to the play expecting to see an Elizabethan set
may be hard-pressed to determine in which period the play is
taking place. Gabara says that was a deliberate decision because
the message of the play is timeless. “This play has been done in
numerous ways and it works because it deals with human nature,
which is the same regardless of time or space.”
Tickets to Macbeth or the Dinner and a Show event can be
purchased online any time at
www.utoledo.edu/BoxOffice <http://www.utoledo.edu/BoxOffice>,
by calling 419.530.2375, or by visiting the theatre box office
in the UT Center for Performing Arts, Monday-Friday from 3-5
p.m. beginning April 6. |
