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The three witches who tell Macbeth and Banquo the prophecy in the original are prostitutes who work for Hecate. The list goes on, but Nesbø makes these characters shine by giving them a backstory ...
Hecate’s hags are played by Malcolm Gets ... It’s a smart way of indicating that once Macbeth lets evil in, it’s there to stay. As in most Shakespeare productions, performances are all ...
In this new “Macbeth,” the star famous for throwing ... Driving the occult point home is goddess of the underworld Hecate (Francesca Faridany), who prances around looking like a Goth-Kabuki ...
Her standing as the deity of witches is referenced in multiple Shakespearean works, most notably in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. As Zelda often mentions, Hecate is also a triple goddess ...
In fact, the stars of this "Macbeth" are the supernatural creatures whose presence dominates -- even overshadows -- all the mortals in a throbbing parallel universe of witches, Hecate the Queen ...
Voodoo Macbeth’s most significant shift (Welles’s all-black cast has been nixed) is the beefing up of the role of Hecate (William Hayes) into the powerful leader behind the black magic, and the switch ...
Hecate is the play Macbeth, translated and performed in Noongar language The adaptation is one of several efforts sparking a "renaissance" of the language Many of the Aboriginal actors had to ...
frail and unfettered by Kathleen Akerley’s frustratingly subdued Lady Macbeth — and her performance is further complicated as she pulls double duty as Hecate, queen of the witches.
Bracknell has created “a loose version” of Macbeth, which she has titled Hecate after one of the characters in the play. Performed entirely in Noongar, it will form part of Perth Festival’s ...