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Tour of duty: ASF's Lady Macbeth and company bring Shakespeare's soldiers to life for the U.S. military.(Alabama Shakespeare Festival)
American Theatre, February, 2005 by McCall, Kathleen
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 2004
We did a final tech/dress tonight for an invited audience at Maxwell Air Force Base here in Montgomery, Ala. I must say it was thrilling to play for a military audience. Macbeth seems to speak directly to them and their world. I knew this as we were preparing it, but I didn't realize how palpable it was until I was saying those lines directly to them: "What not put upon his spongy officers," "You do unbend your noble strength." It is such a military play: full of images of blood, battle, death and so much of what these men and women ...
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