Macbeth
After Shakespeare’s famous Weird Sisters devine to Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland, Macbeth and his wife plot to remove King Duncan from his throne by any means necessary.
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An essay from Migdalia Cruz in Shakespeare and Latinidad, on the Play On Shakespeare translation process:
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Macbeth
Translation by Migdalia Cruz
Directed by Edward Torres
In Migdalia Cruz’s Macbeth, the Witches run the world. The Macbeths live out a dark cautionary tale of love, greed, and power, falling from glory into calamity as the Witches spin their fate. Translating Shakespeare’s language for a modern audience, Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz rewrites Macbeth with all the passion of the Bronx.
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Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Translation by Migdalia Cruz
In Migdalia Cruz's Macbeth, the Witches run the world. The Macbeths live out a dark cautionary tale of love, greed, and power, falling from glory into calamity as the Witches spin their fate. Translating Shakespeare's language for a modern audience, Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz rewrites Macbeth with all the passion of the Bronx.
This translation of Macbeth was presented in 2018 as part of the Play On! Shakespeare project, an ambitious undertaking from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival that commissioned new translations of 39 Shakespeare plays. These translations present the Bard's work in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.
Production History
Sep 9, 2018
Translation Workshop
Work session with full cast in NYC.
April 16, 2019
Translation Workshop
Workshop directed by Dawn Monique Williams with full cast in LA.
June 18, 2019
Play On! Festival NYC
Rehearsal and Staged Reading directed by Ian Belknap with full cast as part of the Play On! Translation Festival in NYC.
Produced by:
Play On! / Classic Stage / Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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