The McBeth Duo

I also saw the 2-man McBeth play performed that my fellow blog-peers saw as well.  And, this was actually the first time I've seen McBeth. 

To start off with, this play was done with only 2 actors, which certainly made things interesting, since there were some scenes with 3 or more characters on stage at a time.  This choice made it a little bit harder for me to follow what was going on, but it added for some funny moments.  I think that because of this decision, the actors decided to have more fun with it, to make it more comedic than it was originally intended to be.  That being said, they certainly did make it rather entertaining with their decision to also include audience members in the play.  There were several moments where they had the audience read lines for when messengers arrived, and reacted based off of what happened, which, made things a lot more interactive, a lot more interesting, especially the parts where they went up the stairs and into the audience.  

Now, the venue of the play wasn't the best for interacting with the audience, since it was a typical stage with rows of seats in front of it, but they made good use of what they were given.  They also relied very little on props; mainly just a table and chairs, curtains, and creative uses of light to produce different effects.  Overall, it was a simple play that focused more on the abilities of the actors to portray the story, instead of relying on props or costumes, or things of that nature.  They used minimalism in the materials so that the focus would be on the characters, instead of the things around them.