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Shakespeare's Macbeth   

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play about the destruction of a human soul; a play so ominous and foreboding that the actors who perform it will not even call it by name, and only refer to it as that “Scottish play.” Rooted in Scottish history and Elizabethan superstitions, the play portrays Macbeth’s temptation and fall from honor to damnation in soulless and barbaric isolation.

In this two-hour session, we will visit a drama Shakespeare painted on historical canvass as his audience might have understood it. We may not believe in witches, but the questions raised by the play are with us always: the price of ambition, the consequence of choice, and the all too human possibility of seduction into evil.

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