Broad Street Review: “By embracing its theatricality, all-male Shakespeare will allow us to push the limits of the horror that this play demands,” Quintessence Theatre Group artistic director Alex Burns said in a statement on the casting of his all-male Macbeth (extended through April 28, 2024). The note appeared in marketing emails and on the show’s webpage, but later, following a backlash, the company quietly removed it (a team decision, Burns said).
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I honestly havent actually been pissed off by reading any of these news comments yet this semester, but this one has changed that. I think it is interesting to make certain casting choices, and while i think the idea of trying to replicate a completely “authentic” theater experience is outdated i relatively understand the idea behind it. This, director on the other hand just makes it seem very clear that he doesn’t view womanhood or femininity as something to stand on its own, but rather a toy to be played with. I think what put the nail in the coffin for me for this director was when he began to talk about how gender is just being created from, and thats whats beautiful about the performance, the issue i has is that it seems the only way you can create gender,. At least to this director, is to stem from a cis white male. And when you do stem off from that, its the fact that the actor playing lady macbeth, was hairless, had a smaller frame. Like all things stereotypically considered feminine. The director makes it sound like it was revolutionary, when really he was just playing along the meaningluss gender lines eveyone else does in this world.
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