Ting said the context allows us to be able to explore the complexities of PTSD. "I was just fascinated by the idea of two soldiers who are transformed by this experience in combat and how they changed, and how they deal with society," said Ting.įor Shakespeare purists, Ting said the script contains approximately 72 percent of the original text.Īudiences will quickly recognize that the three nurses are the three witches whose prophecies haunt and perplex Macbeth (McKinley Belcher III), and that Nurse No. It's that not-so-obvious that becomes painfully obvious as the play unfolds. Banquo's wounds are quite obvious, Macbeth's considerably less so. Most audiences would probably identify Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as the two central figures, but Ting places the spotlight on Macbeth and Banquo (Barret O'Brien), fellow soldiers, the former predicted to be bound for a position of great power.Īs the play opens, we find Macbeth and Banquo recovering from war injuries in a Middle America hospital ward. The idea of war has a profound effect on all people, not just soldiers, not just politicians, but families, communities, friends of soldiers." "We're not only talking about those wounded in combat, but how the war wounds all of us. "One thing that I know is that by setting it in 1969, which is such a volatile moment in our history, I knew most of the audience would bring to it their own personal history of the time, and that there were ways that the text might resonate with the audience," said Ting.
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