Come for the blood and gore and stay for the Himbo Macbeth who doesn’t know what he’s doing but does it anyway because his wife tells him to. I think Sam Gold brought a Macbeth to Broadway that will challenge the way we view this show, and I hope it spurs other adaptations of it that aren’t as serious about how Macbeth, as a character, is. Macbeth doesn’t feel like he’s in charge at any point it’s always Lady Macbeth, and that’s why I love this show as much as I do. He’s brash, messy in his fighting, and not the brains behind their plan, and I love that Daniel Craig plays that in his every move. Macbeth thinks he’s invincible because he cannot be killed by anyone of woman born, just straight up forgetting that c-sections exist. Most everything I’ve seen from it (in terms of adaptations) has made this show aggressively serious, and the latest take on Broadway is that actually this show is funny. Sam Gold’s Macbeth tends to be funny, too, which is rare in a production of this show. He’s wooed by his wife and her dreams of power, and he follows in her path like a little puppy.
And I didn’t realize how much I wanted just a bloody and gory version of this story until watching this on stage.īoth Craig and Negga embrace the blood that comes with telling the story of the Macbeths, and they’re as in love with and attracted to each other as they should be, but Lady Macbeth is clearly the brains of the operation, and this production doesn’t hide that or make Macbeth into something he’s not. When Macbeth kills Duncan, there’s blood all over his hands and clothes, while many productions I’ve seen have staged it without the use of stage blood. What I loved so much about the Gold production of Macbeth was how bloody it was, too.
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He’s the kind of character who doesn’t know how to function without the guidance of his wife, and Craig’s take on him features him barely knowing what to do and also cracking open a beer in the middle of telling Lady Macbeth that he brought the daggers with him instead of setting up the murder like he was supposed to. According to the official definition of a himbo, one is classified as “an attractive but unintelligent man.” So when you break down Macbeth as a character, that’s pretty much him. But I speak as a himbo scholar, and he’s a prime example. Is it weird to consider him a himbo? I am sure some scholars would absolutely hate me for it. The joy of this story comes from just how absolutely ridiculous Macbeth himself is. Thankfully, that is very much the energy of the Sam Gold production on Broadway starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. The new GCSE AO3 has changed the definition of context from the former prescription of social /cultural. I love William Shakespeare’s Macbeth because it is, at its core, about a himbo man who is easily convinced to do horrific things by his hot wife, and I love them both for it.
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