John Ehle
Jennifer Ehle
Moises Kaufman sets the action not in ancient Scotland but in the early twentieth century – also a period of war, bloodshed and deception -- with the result that Mr. Schreiber and his co-star, Jennifer Ehle as Lady Macbeth, are in more intimate contact with the political environment and the audience. As the hero and his wife, Mr. Schreiber and Ms. Ehle begin as fashionable opportunists, but grow deeper and darker as Macbeth sinks into despair. He delivers the big soliloquies with an emotion that thrills and chills, but is always in control, while her sleepwalking scene combines guilt and heartfelt remorse.
The production achieves the classical aim of pity for them both and their plight, and fear of the abyss that awaits the over-ambitious.
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