Leeds Theatre
by Eugene Ionesco
directed by James Rutherford
February 22-25, 2007
Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
Leeds Theatre
Ionesco’s "Macbett" succeeds in being both a brilliant satire of the Bard’s play and an angry commentary on 20th century life. In "Macbett" he uses the absurdities inherent in war to explore the nature of political violence and dictatorship. This 1972 absurdist homage to Shakespeare is a wild sprawling text in which: Duncan is a lunatic; Lady Duncan, Lady Macbett, and a witch are the same person; Banco and Macbett are twins; and Malcolm is a bloodthirsty tyrant who sings of Macbett's doom “Wagnerian style.”