Macbett: Division 13 Productions: Joanna Settle,... -
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And Andrew Lieberman has given her an incredible set to play on, one with lots of doors so actors can enter and exit wildly and two long trenches running the length of the stage.
These trenches are visually interesting.
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Director Joanna settle and set designer Andrew Lieberman brilliantly utilized the huge space at Chopin Theatre.
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On Andrew Lieberman's sublimely garish set-a severe expanse of wood-grain paneling and featureless carpet that lumbers gracelessly almost into the audience's lap-the play seems a kind of nightmarish raver party.
The tyrant archduke Duncan is a dissipated, pajama-clad hedonist doted upon by his ultra fey assistant.
His wife, a thrift-store dominatrix in mile-high heels, betrays him by conspiring with twin assassins, Macbett and Banquo, who seem pulled from a 1980 new wave clothing catalog.
Once Macbett assumes the throne, he's transformed into a maniacal Vegas performer surrounded by sycophantic minions in white isolation suits and Day-Glo plastic wigs.