PRODUCTION Macbeth: A Political Allegory
Data Type:photo
Title:Macbeth: A Political Allegory Performance Photos
Date:2011/5/25
Abstract:83 photos arranged in chronological order and with annotations.




















































































Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang (as Enthusiast) plays snare drums and xylopone in the beginning of scene 1.

The three Enthusiasts singing "Fair Is Foul." From left to right: David Ta-Wei Ting, Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang, Anita Ying-Jeng Wang.

"Thane of Cawdor" prophecy (by David Ta-Wei Ting).

"Thane of Glamis" phophecy (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang).

"King" prophecy (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang).

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Two truths are told."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Cannot be ill; cannot be good."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) looking at Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang).

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Hie thee hither."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Greater than both, by the all hail hereafter!"

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): ". . . then 'twere well it were done quickly."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "That but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "But in these cases we but teach bloody instructions. "

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself?"

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Hath it slept since?"

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "And wakes it now, to look so green and pale at what it did so freely?"

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "From this time such I account thy love."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "From this time such I account thy love."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) picks up the ring from the floor.

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?"

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Like the poor cat i' the adage?"

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Prithee, peace!"

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "I dare do all that may become a man."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "When you durst do it, then you were a man."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "And, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "We fail!"

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "But screw your courage to the sticking-place. . . ."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "And we'll not fail."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "I am settled."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "And bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Lamenter (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) sleeping.

Lamenter (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) is stirred from sleep by the gunshot and ambulence siren. She starts to sing "O Horror."

Two Lamenters (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang and Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) sing "O Horror."

Two Lamenters (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang and Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) sing "O Horror."

Two Lamenters (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang and Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) sing "O Horror."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) takes off his bloody shirt.

A jacket is descending from above.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) throws away his bloody shirt.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) after thowing away his bloody shirt.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) admiring the jacket descending from above.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) puts on the jacket.

US dollars shower down from above.

Divided acting areas: Lamenters (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang and Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) singing in the left; Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) dancing in money in the right.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) dances in a shower of money.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) dances in a shower of money.

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Nought's had, all's spent."

Collaborator (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang): "You must have patience, madam."

Collaborator (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang): "Let your highness command upon me."

Collaborator (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang): "My duties are with a most indissoluble tie for ever knit."

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "How now, my lord! "

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang) shows Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) a passport.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) is pleasantly surprised by the passport.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) is pleasantly surprised by the passport.

Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) is resolved to be bold.

Collaborator (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang): "Be lion-mettled, proud."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) and Lady Macbeth (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Seek to know no more."

Pessimist (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "I think our country sinks beneath the yoke."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "We may again give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "All which we pine for now."

Passivist (by Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang): "Things at the worst will cease."

Pessimist (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Let us seek out some desolate shade."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Let us rather hold fast the mortal sword."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Now we'll together."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Let grief convert to anger."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Our power is ready."

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang) cuts off a string hanging Macbeth's campaign sign.

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang) cuts off a string hanging Macbeth's campaign sign.

Activist (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Well, march we on."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "I have almost forgot the taste of fears."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Arm, arm, and out!"

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Blow, wind! come, wrack!"

A Cop (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang and Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang) puts handcuffs on Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting).

Cop (by Anita Ying-Jeng Wang): "Here may you see the tyrant."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting) sings "Tomorrow" behind bars.

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "Out, out, brief candle!"

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage."

Macbeth (by David Ta-Wei Ting): "It is a tale told by an idiot."

Curtain call.


