Shakespeare Theatre’s version of the Scottish play centers on women’s experience
Chelsea Lee Williams, Stacey Sargeant, Ximone Rose and Whitney White in Shakespeare Theatre Company's “Macbeth in Stride.” “Reach for it.” That exhortation is a song title in “Macbeth in Stride,” an ingenious meditation on ambition and the Bard, now at Shakespeare Theatre Company. An apt song title it is, too.
When the Woman appears, the Witches become her confidantes. Prodded by them to say what she wants as an ambitious Black woman, she confesses that she covets power with a “capital P.” Soon, she is stepping in and out of a version of “Macbeth” that centers Lady Macbeth — a character notorious for daring to hunger for more.Passionate, self-possessed and self-aware, White’s Lady M is appealing in a way that bolsters the “I want” motif of “Macbeth in Stride.
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