{"id":3754,"date":"2020-10-12T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T20:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:03:11","slug":"macbeth-inspires-throughout-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/press\/macbeth-inspires-throughout-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth Inspires throughout Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleMain\">\n<p>Artists have always been interested in reinventing Shakespeare. They are as inspired by him as he was by the artists who came before him. Since its premiere in the early 1600s,\u00a0<em>Macbeth\u00a0<\/em>has been re-envisioned in many different forms.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Melville\u2019s book,\u00a0<em>Moby Dick<\/em>, the story of Captain Ahab and the Great White Whale, may not look like it was inspired by\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>, but Melville utilized many of Macbeth\u2019s nastier character traits in crafting Captain Ahab.<\/p>\n<p>In 1936, one of the most original interpretations of\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0took the stage. Orson Welles\u2019 production of\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0took on the nickname of \u201cVoodoo\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>,\u201d as it took place 19th century Haiti. The production starred an entirely black cast and was extremely controversial, but was also a major success. The cast even included a genuine witch doctor from Haiti, who had the unfortunate tendency to fall into deep trances, from which he could not be awakened. Orson Welles would also go on to direct and star in a film version of\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>, which was filmed in only 23 days and on a budget of $700,000.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, Akira Kurosawa adapted\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0into a black-and-white film named\u00a0<em>Throne of Blood<\/em>. His version transposes the action of\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0to feudal Japan and explores fighting between Japanese warlords. Many changes were made to characters\u2019 names and dialogue, but the film captures the play\u2019s spooky element and the ambitious theme.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0has been adapted for film many times as well. The first known film version was a silent film in 1908. Since then, it has been turned into movies, television specials and even an animated series. Ian McKellen (Magneto in the\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em>\u00a0franchise and Gandalf in\u00a0<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0franchise) played the titular role in 1979. The film adaptation was based on the stage version that McKellen had starred in in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, a film version starring Sam Worthington (Jake Sully in\u00a0<em>Avatar<\/em>) set\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0in modern-day Melbourne, Australia. Instead of being about Scottish nobility, the film portrayed the characters as gang members and the actors used their native Australian accents. Patrick Stewart (Professor Charles Xavier in the\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em>\u00a0franchise) played Macbeth in a televised version of the play on BBC in 2010. Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler in\u00a0<em>X2<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the second film of the\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em>\u00a0franchise) starred in\u00a0<em>Macbeth\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0in the spring of 2013; Cumming did not only play Macbeth, but combined all of the other significant roles in a chilling one-man production set in a mental institution. James McAvoy (Charles Xavier in\u00a0<em>X-Men: First Class<\/em>) also played the role in the spring of 2013 in London\u2019s West End; Scotland was transformed into a dystopian nation struggling for survival.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2014, Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart in\u00a0<em>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/em>) will premiere his own staging of\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0in New York. Branagh, who is known for his stage and film work, will be making his New York stage debut in this new production.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson Jaffe<br \/>\nEducation Program Assistant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists have always been interested in reinventing Shakespeare. They are as inspired by him as he was by the artists who came before him. Since its premiere in the early 1600s,\u00a0Macbeth\u00a0has been re-envisioned in many different forms. Herman Melville\u2019s book,\u00a0Moby Dick, the story of Captain Ahab and the Great White Whale, may not look like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-season","category-show-feature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Macbeth Inspires throughout Time - Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/press\/macbeth-inspires-throughout-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Macbeth Inspires throughout Time - Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artists have always been interested in reinventing Shakespeare. 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