Guthrie Theater

by William Shakespeare
directed by Joe Dowling

Playing now-April 3, 2010 on the Wurtele Thrust Stage
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In this tale of treachery and ambition, a brave soldier and nobleman, Macbeth, encounters three weïrd sisters who prophesy his path to greatness. When their predictions begin to come true, Macbeth and his ambitious wife decide to do whatever is necessary to ensure their rise to power. They first hatch a plot to kill the king and take his place, and though all goes according to plan, they soon realize a single murder isn’t enough to maintain the throne. Obsession and paranoia get the best of them, driving the couple down a path of destruction on a quest for glory, even as the kingdom crumbles between their bloody fingers. Macbeth, Shakespeare’s shortest and darkest tragedy, performed here with no intermission, moves with the rapid pace of the murder thriller it is, exposing the politics of power and the corruption it breeds. This production contains graphic violence.